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[Conditions for porphyrin formation by propionic acid bacteria].
Prikladnaia biokhimiia i mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Poluliakh O V, Zaĭtseva N I, Bykhovskiĭ V Ia
Abstract excerpt
Porphyrin production by seven species of propionic acid bacteria (Propionibacterium shermanii, its mutant P. shermanii M-82, P. technicum, P. vannielii, P. rubrum, P. thoenii and P. jensenii) was being studied. All the bacteria were cultivated on a glucose-peptone medium. A positive correlation between the amount of the produced porphyrins and the vitamin B12-synthetizing activity was observed for the most of...
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