“…The hydroxamate assay procedure of Somerville and Elford (20) and Woolfolk, Shapiro, and Stadtman (23) was used to measure the hydroxamic acid formed by anthranilate synthetase. The reaction mixture contained, in a total volume of 0.9 ml: 40 jAmoles of L-glutamine, 80 j,moles of Tris, pH 7.8, 10,umoles of MgCl2, 200 jAmoles of freshly neutralized hydroxylamine, 0.4,Amole of chorismic acid, water, and enzyme to volume.…”