AMINO-ACID UTILIZATION PATTERNS IN CLOSTRIDIAL TAXONOMY
AMINO-ACID UTILIZATION PATTERNS IN CLOSTRIDIAL TAXONOMY
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00446812
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
HILTON, MG
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作者:
ELSDEN, SR;HILTON, MG
The polyamide layer technique for chromatographic separation of dimethylaminonaphthalene sulfonyl amino acids was used to study the amino acids metabolized by cultures of proteolytic clostridia growing in a medium consisting of an acid hydrolysate of casein as a source of amino acids and small amounts of yeast extract and trypticase as sources of growth factors. Chromatograms of the media after growth showed which amino acids were used and which new amino acids were produced. Clostridium botulinum type F (proteolytic), C. ghoni, C. mangenoti and C. putrificum reduced proline to 5-aminovaleric acid and produced 2-aminobutyric acid, properties they shared with C. sporogenes and C. sticklandii. C. botulinum type G and C. subterminale used glycine, lysine, serine and arginine but, in contrast to C. sticklandii, they neither reduced proline to 5-aminovaleric acid nor produced 2-aminobutyric acid. Both organisms oxidized phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan to phenylacetic acid, p-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid and indole acetic acid, respectively. C. lituseburense and C. scatologenes used serine, threonine and arginine and produced 2-amino butyric acid and ornithine. C. lentoputrescens, C. limosum and C. malenominatum resembled C. tetanomorphum by using glutamic acid and tyrosine. The chromatograms always showed the physiological group to which an organism belonged and in some cases were characteristic of the species.