BACTERIAL METABOLISM OFD-ASPARTATE INVOLVING RACEMIZATION AND DECARBOXYLATION
- 1 August 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Vol. 12 (4) , 745-751
- https://doi.org/10.1139/m66-101
Abstract
A pseudomonad was isolated from soil with D-aspartate serving as sole carbon source. Whole cells and cellular extracts produced carbon dioxide and DL-alanine from D- and L-aspartate. The addition of oxamycin to cellular extracts inhibited the alanine racemase found to be present and it was ascertained that L-alanine was formed from both D- and L-aspartate, indicating that D-aspartate had been racemized to the L-isomer with subsequent decarboxylation to L-alanine.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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