{"title":"D-Xylonic Acid Utilization by Bifidobacteria","authors":"H. Noda, M. Ohsugi","doi":"10.12938/BIFIDUS1982.14.1_15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Intact cell suspension and/or growing cells of Micrococcus sp . produced a large amount of D-xylonic acid from D-xylose. Utilization of D-xylonic acid by intestinal microorganisms was studied. All 5 species of the genera Bifidobacterium, B. adolescentis M101-4, B. bifidum A234-4, B. breve 153-8, B. infantis I-10-5 and B. longum M101-2, showed good growth on basal medium containing D-xylonic acid. Escherichia coli utilized well Dxylonic acid but not fructooligosaccharide.","PeriodicalId":414713,"journal":{"name":"Bifidobacteria and Microflora","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bifidobacteria and Microflora","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12938/BIFIDUS1982.14.1_15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Intact cell suspension and/or growing cells of Micrococcus sp . produced a large amount of D-xylonic acid from D-xylose. Utilization of D-xylonic acid by intestinal microorganisms was studied. All 5 species of the genera Bifidobacterium, B. adolescentis M101-4, B. bifidum A234-4, B. breve 153-8, B. infantis I-10-5 and B. longum M101-2, showed good growth on basal medium containing D-xylonic acid. Escherichia coli utilized well Dxylonic acid but not fructooligosaccharide.