Note on the Variation in the End-Products of Bacterial Fermentation Resulting from Increased Combined Oxygen in the Substrate

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Abstract
Gluconic, glycuronic, and saccharic acids are readily fermented by many organisms of the colon-typhoid group. The action in anaerobic culture of Bacillus coli communis and B. lactis aerogenes, on mannitol, glucose, and on gluconic, glycuronic and saccharic acids, was studied in detail. In general, increasingly oxygenated end products are obtained from the anaerobic fermentation of increasingly oxygenated substrates. The alcohol obtained from mannitol is about twice that obtained from glucose or gluconic acid, while glycuronic and saccharic acids yield practically none. It appears that the substrate must contain the group, CHOH. CH20H, in order to yield CH3CH2OH as an end-product.

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