Two New Amino-Acid-Fermenting Bacteria, Clostridium propionicum and Diplococcus glycinophilus

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Abstract
Two new obligately anaerobic bacteria capable of fermenting single amino acids were isolated from marine mud taken in the San Francisco Bay region by the enrichment culture method. C. propionicum causes a propionic acid type fermentation of alanine, serine, lactate and other related compounds. D. glycinophilus ferments glycine and is apparently unable to use any other compound as an energy source.