CDNB conjugation

CDNB with GSH. The catalytic turnovers of the latter two enzymes are close, albeit a slightly better catalytic rate was observed for GSTPlb-lb than for GSTPlb-lb. Zimniak et al.19liave reported a similar difference between GSTPla-la and GSTPlb-lb in their rates of catalysis of the conjugation of CDNB with GSH. 

M. expansa was cytosolic and conjugated CDNB but not bromobenzene or chlorobenzene (Douch and Buchanan 1978). Similarly, glutathione-S-transferase activity in H. contortus was observed only with CDNB as substrate and not with DCNB or l,2-epoxy-3-(p-nitrophenoxy)propane (Kawalek et al. 1984). Neither M. expansa not A. suum produced glucuronides with 4-nitrophenol, 2-aminophenol or 4-methylumbelliferone (Douch and Blair 1975), or possessed measurable DDT-dehydrochlorinase activity (Douch and Buchanan 1978). Various specific (cholinesterase) and non-specific esterases have been detected in trematodes, e.g. using a-naphthyl acetate as substrate, in A laria marcianae (Dickinson and Johnson 1978) and Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium (Coles 1970). 

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