“…The cells were harvested, washed in 0.1 Mphosphate buffer pH 7.2, resuspended in the same buffer to an OD,,, of 1, and then ultrasonified with a Braunsonic sonifier. The cell extracts were centrifuged at 20000g for 20 min, and adjusted to a protein concentration of approximately 2 mg ml-l using the Lowry protein assay method (Stauffer, 1975). A 25 ml volume of this preparation was used directly as a reaction mixture to which 0.5 pmol substrate (2,3-OH-4-CB) was added to initiate the reaction.…”