Bacterial metabolism

Bacterial Metabolism

Carbohydrat,es are fermented by Clostridium acetobutylicum and related microorganisms with the formation of acetic acid, n-butyric acid, acetone, ethanol, and n-butanol. It has been conclusively proved that the butanol arises by the reduction of the butyric acid (1, 2). As yet, however, there is no exact information as to the sequence of reactions by which butyric acid is formed from glucose by...

Bacterial carnitine metabolism

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Bacterial metabolism of arginine.

Genomics and bacterial metabolism.

The field of bacterial metabolism and physiology is arguably the oldest in microbiology. Much of our understanding of biological processes and molecular paradigms has its roots In early studies of prokaryotic physiology. After a period of declining interest in metabolic studies (prompted by the insurgence of molecular techniques), genomic technologies are revitalizing the study of bacterial met...

Bacterial metabolism of hydroxylated biphenyls.

Isolates able to grow on 3- or 4-hydroxybiphenyl (HB) as the sole carbon source were obtained by enrichment culture. The 3-HB degrader Pseudomonas sp. strain FH12 used an NADPH-dependent monooxygenase restricted to 3- and 3,3'-HBs to introduce an ortho-hydroxyl. The 4-HB degrader Pseudomonas sp. strain FH23 used either a mono- or dioxygenase to generate a 2,3-diphenolic substitution pattern whi...