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ANTIBACTERIAL, nitrofurans are reduced to the corresponding amino-compounds by Aerobacter aerogenes 1. The site of the reaction (in a different organism) is now shown to be the cytoplasmic membrane rather than the cell wall or cytoplasm. Lack of an enzyme system capable of effecting this reaction in the bacterial cell walls was not unexpected2.
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BECKETT, A., ROBINSON, A. Site of Reduction of Nitrofurazone by Bacteria. Nature 180, 1206–1207 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801206a0
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