From Benzothiophene-S-oxide to Benzothiophene-S,S-dioxide

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Medline reference
Konishi J, Ishii Y, Onaka T, Maruhashi K. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2002) 60(1-2): 128-33.

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11 citations on March 09, 2012. 
      Benzothiophene-S-oxide       
                 |
                 |  O2 + NADH
  benzothiophene | /
   monooxygenase |/
       1.14.13.- |
                 |\
          ExPASy | \
                 |  OH- + NAD+
                 v
    Benzothiophene-S,S-dioxide
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EAWAG-BBD Biotransformation rules in accord with this reaction:
disubstituted Sulfide -----> disubstituted Sulfoxide (bt0162)
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This is the EAWAG-BBD reaction, reacID# r1601.
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