... as the standard.RESULTSInduction of citral lyaseInitially, the reproducibility of the results was hindered byvariations in the citral lyase activity of the P. digitatumspores. Remarkably, ... hydratase and aldolase activityin a single enzyme. No other enzyme has been reported to catalyse the conversion of citral into methylheptenone and acetaldehyde, or a similar conversion of othera,b-unsaturated ... is approximately the monomeric size of these hydratase/aldolase enzymes. All of these enzymesexhibit more then 75% of their maximum activity at pH 7.6, the optimum pH of citral lyase [27,30–32]....