Studies on Deoxyribosidic Growth Requirement of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26

Abstract

Summary

Our experiments indicate that L. acidophilus R-26 could not use either 3′, 5′-TDP, TDP, TTP, D-CDP, or D-CTP for growth, although the compounds were fully utilized after hydrolysis. It was concluded that the organism could not be used directly to detect deoxynucleoside polyphosphates in tissue extracts.