Abstract
Crithidia factors and folic acid were found to be widely distributed in culture fluids and in cells of 27 species of bacteria, when cultured under aerobic conditions into the stationary phase. Most bacteria excreted more Crithidia factors and folic acid than they retained in their cells. One Crithidia factor produced by Serratia indica and one produced by Bacillus cereus differed from biopterin in their chromatographic behavior. The factor excreted by S. indica appeared to be a 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-substituted pteridine on the basis of KMnO4 oxidation and ultraviolet absorption spectra. One of the folate compounds excreted by this organism was shown to be identical to 5,10-methylidynetetrahydrofolic acid by bioautography.
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