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Characterization of an O-desmethylangolensin-producing bacterium isolated from human feces.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Jan 2010
Yokoyama Shin-ichiro, Niwa Toshio, Osawa Toshihiko, Suzuki Tohru
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A bacterium that converted daidzein to O-desmethylangolensin was isolated from the feces of healthy humans. It was an obligately anaerobic, nonsporeforming, nonmotile and Gram-positive rod. The isolate used glucose, sucrose, raffinose, maltose, and fructose as carbon sources. It did not hydrolyze gelatin, esculin, or starch. The strain was urease, acid phosphatase, and arginine dihydrolase positive. It was...
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