Ternan N G, Quinn J P
School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998 Jul 20;248(2):378-81. doi: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8962.
Cell-free extracts of Burkholderia cepacia strain Pal6 catalysed the degradation of 3-phosphonopyruvate to pyruvate and inorganic phosphate; the products were detected in equimolar quantities. The stable in vitro activity responsible was distinct from both phosphonoactealdehyde hydrolase and phosphonoacetate hydrolase and from phosphoenolpyruvate phosphomutase and appears to represent a novel mode of carbon-phosphorus bond cleavage.
