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. 1970 Oct;104(1):599–600. doi: 10.1128/jb.104.1.599-600.1970

Impurity in a Common Growth Medium Component: Presence of an Isoflavonoid in Samples of l-Asparagine

A T Hudson ¹, Ronald Bentley ¹

PMCID: PMC248250 PMID: 5473912

Abstract

An impurity, present in some samples of l-asparagine, gave genistein on acid hydrolysis. The contaminant (probably the glucoside of genistein) was metabolized by Mycobacterium phlei to genistein and prunetin.

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