Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0084.
Abstract
Lactobacillus plantarum requires biotin for growth. We show that in the presence of high levels of the biotin biosynthetic precursor, dethiobiotin, L. plantarum synthesizes biotin and grows in medium with dethiobiotin but without biotin. Lactobacillus casei also grew under similar conditions.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
7 articles.
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