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Superoxide imposes leakage of sulfite from Escherichia coli.
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics - 15 Nov 1997
Benov L, Fridovich I
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli, which lacks the cytosolic superoxide dismutases, exhibits several nutritional auxotrophies when growing aerobically. The cysteine/methionine requirement, which is one of these, was previously shown to be due to leakage from the cells, and accumulation in the medium, of a metabol...
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