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Four species of bacteria which includedPseudomonas fluorescens,Vibrio cholerae andVibrio costicola were observed to produce glutaminase both as extracellular and intracellular fractions. Comparatively both the fractions were higher in mineral media supplemented with 1% glutamine than in nutrient broth added with or without glutamine. Extracellular glutaminase production was about 2.6–6.8 times greater than the intracellular production by all the tested strains.
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Renu, S., Chandrasekaran, M. Extracellular L-glutaminase production by marine bacteria. Biotechnol Lett 14, 471–474 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01023169
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01023169