... Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture and 2Division of Science of Biological Resources,Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, JapanA bacterial strain that grew on 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoicacid ... 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoic acid. The purification and characterization of a dioxygenase from this strain,Correspondence to K. Aoki, Department of Biofunctional Chemistry,Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University, Rokko, ... containing4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoic acid and yeast extract and completely degraded the former compound (Fig. 1). Theconsumption of 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoic acid correlatedwith an increase in cell density and in protein...