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J Bacteriol. 1965 March; 89(3): 729-733
Copyright © 1965 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Relationship of Carbon Dioxide to Aspartic Acid and Glutamic Acid in Actinomyces naeslundii

^a Department of Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

ABSTRACT

BUCHANAN, B. B. (Duke University, Durham, N.C.), AND LEO PINE. Relationship of carbon dioxide to aspartic acid and glutamic acid in Actinomyces naeslundi. J. Bacteriol. 89:729–733. 1965.—CO₂, which was essential for the fermentation of glucose to succinic acid by Actinomyces naeslundii, was also required for the synthesis of internal aspartic acid, for which the cells lack a permease.

¹ Present address: Department of Cell Physiology, University of California, Berkeley.

² Present address: Communicable Disease Center, U.S. Public Health Service, Atlanta, Ga.