TABLE 1.

Radioactivity incorporated into the benzyl alcohol, benzaldehyde, and benzoic acid produced by B. adusta after l-[U-¹⁴C]phenylalanine was added^a

Day of harvest	% of radioactivity inb:
	Residual l-phenylalanine	Benzyl alcohol	Benzaldehyde	Benzoic acid	Estimated 14CO2c
6	26.2 ± 1.3	39 ± 2	13 ± 0.7	3.2 ± 0.2	18.6 ± 1
8	4.3 ± 0.2	14 ± 1	17.7 ± 0.9	1.1 ± 0.05	62.9 ± 3

^al-[U-¹⁴C]phenylalanine was added at the time of inoculation. 

^bRadioactivity is expressed as the percentage of the total radioactivity added initially (8.29 μCi/ml). 

^cThe estimated amount of ¹⁴CO₂ was calculated by assuming that aryl metabolites and l-phenylalanine could be completely degraded to carbon dioxide.