“…In some cases, however, the biotransformation product is not detectable through chemical analysis methods, and indirect methods must therefore be adopted to distinguish between adsorption and biotransformation. The involvement of an enzymatic reaction, rather than simple binding, is evidenced by the loss of biotransformation activity following heat or acid-inactivation of cells or in an extracellular extract treated with enzyme inactivating agents, such as proteinase K, SDS or EDTA [12,15,19,98,99]. Furthermore, the subcellular location of active components responsible for biotransformation can be identified by comparing activities in the whole cell culture, extracellular extract (by centrifugation) and cytoplasmic extract (by cell lysis) [25,27,34,45,50,59,88,99].…”