Article
<i>E. coli</i> can eat DNA as excellent nitrogen source to grow quickly
2022-03-08
Abstract excerpt
Is DNA or RNA a good nutrient? Although scientists have raised this question for dozens of years, few textbooks mention the nutritional role of nucleic acids. Paradoxically, mononucleotides are widely added to infant formula milk and animal feed for improving Intestinal health. Here, found that E. coli can grow well in the medium with DNA as carbon and nitrogen sources. More interestingly, in the presence of gluc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cd1db0f7-515a-526d-8199-0a83f88707b7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.03.07.483256
