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IN those species of bacteria examined which oxidize glucose but are incapable of attacking it anaerobically, it has been shown that glucose breakdown proceeds by a pathway other than through the classical Embden–Meyerhof scheme1. Cell suspensions of A. mycoides (the organism of bovine pleuro-pneumonia) were found to oxidize glucose, but were incapable of attacking it anaerobically. Consistent with this finding is the fact that growth was almost absent Under anaerobic conditions, and was markedly stimulated by aeration of cultures. In spite of the absence of anaerobic glucose breakdown, it is concluded that glucose oxidation in this organism proceeds by way of the Embden–Meyerhof pathway.
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RODWELL, A., RODWELL, E. Pathway for Glucose Oxidation in Asterococcus mycoides. Nature 172, 254–255 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172254a0
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