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Pseudomonas acidovorans and P. putida, isolated from an enrichment culture with casein hydrolysate, and Agrobacterium radiobacter and Torulopsis sp., isolated from a glucose enrichment, were compared with respect to the physiology of ammonification. Decreasing ammonifying ability as well as increasing repression of the synthesis of amino acid degrading enzymes by glucose were found in the above order of organisms. In degradation sequences, observed with P. putida and A. radiobacter as test organisms, substances dissimilated prior to others had both, enhancing and repressing effects on the oxidation of the other compounds. This fact was parallelled by the observation, that in these two bacteria, glucose and single amino acids, when added to the same medium, exerted mutual repression of the synthesis of catabolic enzymes of their partners. The ecological significance of this type of regulation has been discussed.
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Reber, H. Regulation of amino acid and glucose dissimilation in so-called ammonifiers and in other soil microorganisms. Arch. Microbiol. 101, 247–258 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00455942
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00455942