OXIDATIVE ASSIMILATION BY BACILLUS SUBTILIS

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Abstract
Manometric data lead to the conclusion that endogenous respiration of washed cells of B. subtilis is not suppressed during oxidative assimilation and that satisfactory equations for oxidative assimilation can be advanced only from data corrected for endogenous respiration. Equations based on the corrected data suggest an assimilation of 50% from glucose, 38 from succinate, 43 from fumarate, and 51 from pyruvate, corresponding figures for O2 uptake being 44, 37, 52, and 57%, respectively. C assimilation from glucose agrees closely with the values proposed from the manometric data for washed cells, a somewhat lower value for C assimilation from glucose being obtained with proliferating cells.