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Abstract

Thiamin-deficient mutants of were characterized by their growth responses to the pyrimidine and thiazole moieties of the vitamin molecule and by cross-feeding tests. All mutants growing on the thiazole moiety and all mutants with an absolute requirement for thiamin fed all those growing on the pyrimidine moiety. No other cross-feeding effects were observed. From the culture fluid of a mutant growing on the thiazole moiety, two compounds were isolated which supported growth of mutants requiring the pyrimidine moiety. These compounds were identified by chromatographic, bioautographic and spectrophotometric procedures as 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine and its monophosphate derivative.

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