The Breakdown of Carbohydrates by Asterococcus Mycoides, the Organism of Bovine Pleuropneumonia
Year: 1954
Type: article
Abstract: Cell suspensions of A. mycoides oxidized glucose, fructose, and mannose. Glucose, pyruvate, lactate, and, in the presence of catalase, glycerol were oxidized quantitatively to acetate and carbon dioxide. Anaerobically, pyruvate underwent dismutation to acetate, lactate, and carbon dioxide. Neither glucose nor glycerol were attacked anaerobically by intact cell suspensions. No other pentoses, hexoses, di-, tri-, or polysaccharides, or polyhydric alcohols, were attacked by cells grown in a complex undefined medium.
DOI: 10.1071/bi9540018
Authors: AW Rodwell, E Shirley Rodwell
Language: English
Subfield: Microbiology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2415619939