Urea Production and Putrescine Biosynthesis by Escherichia coli
- 1 November 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 94 (5) , 1516-+
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.94.5.1516-1519.1967
Abstract
Cultures of E. coli B and K-12 produce urea during growth in minimal medium. Results of isotopic labeling experiments were consistent with the sole source of urea being from the conversion of arginine to putrescine. Since E. coli itself has no demonstrable urease activity the rate of urea production is a measure of the flux through the arginine to putrescine pathway.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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