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. 1988 Sep;170(9):4420–4423. doi: 10.1128/jb.170.9.4420-4423.1988

Folic acid and pteroylpolyglutamate contents of archaebacteria.

V E Worrell 1, D P Nagle Jr 1
PMCID: PMC211465  PMID: 3137217

Abstract

Cell extracts of methanogens and the thermoacidophile Sulfolobus solfataricus contained little or no folic acid (pteroylglutamate) or pteroylpolyglutamate activity (less than 0.1 nmol/g [dry weight]). However, the halophile Halobacterium salinarum contained pteroylmono- or pteroyldiglutamates, and Halobacterium volcanii and Halobacterium halobium contained pteroyltriglutamates at levels equivalent to those in eubacteria (greater than 1 nmol/g [dry weight]).

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