Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Abstract
Valentine
, R. C. (University of Illinois, Urbana), H.
Drucker, and R. S. Wolfe
. Glyoxylate fermentation by
Streptococcus allantoicus
. J. Bacteriol.
87:
241–246. 1964.—Extracts of
Streptococcus allantoicus
were found to degrade glyoxylate, yielding tartronic semialdehyde and CO
2
. Tartronic semialdehyde was prepared chemically, and its properties were compared with the enzymatic product: reduction by sodium borohydride yielded glycerate; heating at 100 C yielded glycolaldehyde and CO
2
; autoxidation yielded mesoxalic semialdehyde; periodate oxidation yielded glyoxylate and a compound presumed to be formate. Tartronic semialdehyde reductase was present in extracts of
S. allantoicus
and in a species of
Pseudomonas
grown on allantoin. A scheme for the synthesis of acetate from glyoxylate by
S. allantoicus
is discussed.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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