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Enzyme measurements were carried out with crude cell-free extracts of the propionate oxidizing coculture of Syntrophobacter wolinii and Desulfovibrio G11. Using cell-free extracts of a pure culture of Desulfovibrio G11 as a blank, most of the enzymes involved in the methylmalonyl-CoA pathway for propionate oxidation, including a propionyl-CoA: oxaloacetate transcarboxylase, were demonstrated in S. wolinii.
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Houwen, F.P., Plokker, J., Stams, A.J.M. et al. Enzymatic evidence for involvement of the methylmalonyl-CoA pathway in propionate oxidation by Syntrophobacter wolinii . Arch. Microbiol. 155, 52–55 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291274
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