Characteristics of Leuconostoc mesenteroides from Cane Juice

Characteristics of Leuconostoc mesenteroides from Cane Juice.

Leuconostoc mesenteroides Growth Kinetics

Bacterial profile modification (BPM) is being developed as an oil recovery technique that uses bacteria to selectively plug oil depleted zones within a reservoir to divert displacing fluids (typically water) into oilrich zones. Leuconostoc mesenteroides, which produces dextran when supplied with sucrose, is a bacterium that is technically feasible for use in profile modification. However, the t...

6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase from leuconostoc mesenteroides.

The pathways for degradation of 6-phosphogluconate have been rather clearly defined for several organisms, the most notable of which are yeast (Horecker, 1953), Escherichia coli (Cohen, 1951), Pseudomonas saccharophila (Entner and Doudoroff, 1952; MacGee and Doudoroff, 1954), and Pseudomonas fluorescens (Kovachevich and Wood, 1954). The enzymes from yeast and E. coli appear to be similar, if no...

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides.

Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Zeuconostoc mesenteroides, previously isolated in crystalline form (Olive, C., and Levy, H. R., Biochemistry, 6, 730 (1967)), is shown to be essentially homogeneous by disc gel electrophoresis and sedimentation velocity analysis. The weight average molecular weight is 103,700, determined by both high speed and low speed sedimentation equilibrium techniques...

Serological studies on Leuconostoc mesenteroides.

Following the recognition of four primary colonial types of Leuconostoc mewnteroies by McCleskey et al. (1947), Leiva-Quiros and McCleskey (1947) studied the serological relationships among strains of the four types. They employed glucose-grown cultures for the production of antibodies so the cell antigens could be studied without the complication introduced by the dextran hapten. Several worke...