... of Medical Science, NationalDefense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;3The Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences and Dyson Perrins Laboratory,South Parks Road, Oxford, UK;4Department of ... nmolÆmin)1Æmg)1 for the2-oxoglutarate conversion assay [7], 102 nmolÆmin)1Æmg)1 for penicillin conversion by HPLC assay [1] and 72 nmolÆmin)1Æmg)1 for the holed-plateassay [1]. Standard deviations for ... catalysed bynonhaem iron(II) and 2-oxoglutarate (2-OG)-dependentoxygenases [4]. Two of these enzymes, DAOCS and DACS,are part of a sequence-related subgroup of enzymes [8],which also include...