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RECENT reports described the isolation of a soil organism (Arthrobacter sp.) as the source of an enzyme which reduced o-coumaric acid to melilotic acid1–3. The present communication describes further studies on this enzyme which suggest that it is a flavoprotein and that the flavin moiety is FAD.
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FROST, P., LEVY, C. Metabolism of Coumarin by a Micro-organism. Nature 210, 737 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210737a0
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