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Abstract

SUMMARY

Disrupted cells of some Desulfovibrio species, of and of certain other anaerobes produced methane as a minor product of pyruvic phosphoroclasm. In one Desulfovibrio species the reaction, which was not specially sensitive to air, involved vitamin B, co-enzyme A, thiamine pyrophosphate, magnesium ions and acetyl phosphate. Adenine and other nucleotides stimulated the reaction; a mixture of ATP and AMP was most effective. Methionine stimulated the reaction but the other methyl donors did not. In optimal conditions methane accounted for 0·1 to 0·02 mole % of the pyruvate metabolized, formed at 20 to 30 nl. CH/mg. bacterial protein/hr. Tests in DO indicated that the methane came from the methyl-carbon of pyruvate; correspondingly, ethane formation from -ketobutyrate was detected.

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