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. 1973 Nov;116(2):965–971. doi: 10.1128/jb.116.2.965-971.1973

Biosynthetic Precursors of Vitamin K as Growth Promoters for Bacteroides melaninogenicus

D J Robins 1,2, R B Yee 1,2, Ronald Bentley 1,2
PMCID: PMC285470  PMID: 4745437

Abstract

The growth of a vitamin K-requiring strain of Bacteroides melaninogenicus was promoted by some postulated and proven biosynthetic precursors of bacterial menaquinones, 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoic acid, shikimic acid, chorismic acid, and 4(2′-carboxyphenyl)-4-oxobutyric acid. Growth of the organism with [2′,4-14C2]-4(2′-carboxy phenyl)-4-oxobutyric acid as the vitamin K replacement gave rise to a mixture of radioactive menaquinone-9 and menaquinone-10; the dilution factor for this incorporation was 1.8.

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