THE FERMENTATION OF ALPHA-METHYLGLUCOSIDE
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CONTENT ALERTS Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ NOTES [VOL. 57 DOROTHEA E. KLEMME AND CHARLES F. POE' Division of Sanitary Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Received for publication December 17, 1948 The effect of members of the genera Escherichia and Aerobacter on media containing a-methylglucoside is presented., A quantitative study of the metabolic products formed from this glucoside is reported. The methods and procedures were essentially those employed in previous studies in this laboratory (Field and Downloaded from http://jb.asm.org/ on December 9, 2011 by deepdyve -- e- tft 7.0 t / - - E. co/ic46methyg/lcoside- FigureI I 0.5 7. glucoside E. co/1fX meithy/g/ucoside + Z-..I7. glucoside .lf.Z05 % glucoside /65/0 /53045 60 5 5 005/ 0/550 * /Hours - producing strains of Escherichia coli are grown in a-methylglucoside media. Figure 1. Curves showing the change in pH values when gas-producing and non-gas- Poe: J. Biol. Chem., 132, 473, 1940) on the action of bacteria on sugars and higher alcohols. Species of both genera produced acetic, formic, lactic, and succinic acids. There was