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SUBMITTER: Yumoto I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC90984 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yumoto I Iwata H Sawabe T Ueno K Ichise N Matsuyama H Okuyama H Kawasaki K
Applied and environmental microbiology 19990101 1
A novel facultatively psychrophilic bacterium, strain S-1, which exhibits extraordinarily high catalase activity was isolated from the drain pool of a fish product processing plant that uses H2O2 as a bleaching and microbicidal agent. The catalase activity of the isolate was 1 or 2 orders of magnitude higher than those of Corynebacterium glutamicum, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas fluorescens, and five other species tested in this study. The strain seemed to possess only one kind of catalase, ...[more]