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SUBMITTER: Kuratsu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2976239 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kuratsu Masahiro M Hamano Yoshimitsu Y Dairi Tohru T
Applied and environmental microbiology 20100903 21
We performed analyses of the phenotypic and genotypic relationships focusing on biosyntheses of amino acids, purine/pyrimidines, and cofactors in three Lactobacillus strains. We found that Lactobacillus fermentum IFO 3956 perhaps synthesized para-aminobenzoate (PABA), an intermediate of folic acid biosynthesis, by an alternative pathway. ...[more]