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The nitrogen requirements of 96Gluconobacter, 55Acetobacter and 7Frateuria strains were examined. Only someFrateuria strains were able to grow on 0.5% yeast extract broth or 0.5% peptone broth. In the presence ofd-glucose ord-mannitol as a carbon source, ammonium was used as the sole source of nitrogen by all three genera. With ethanol, only a fewAcetobacter strains grew on ammonium as a sole nitrogen source. Singlel-amino acids cannot serve as a sole source of carbon and nitrogen for growth ofGluconobacter, Acetobacter orFrateuria. The singlel-amino acids which were used by most strains as a sole nitrogen source for growth are: asparagine, aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid, proline and alanine. SomeAcetobacter andGluconobacter strains deaminated alanine, asparagine, glutamic acid, threonine, serine and proline. NoFrateuria strain was able to develop on cysteine, glycine, threonine or tryptophan as a sole source of nitrogen for growth. An inhibitory effect of valine may explain the absence of growth on this amino acid. No amino acid is “essential” forGluconobacter, Acetobacter orFrateuria.
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Gosselé, F., Van den Mooter, M., Verdonck, L. et al. The nitrogen requirements ofGluconobacter, Acetobacter andFrateuria . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 47, 289–296 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02350779
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