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D-Glucarate Catabolism by Pseudomonadaceae and Enterobacteriaceae

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D-GLUCARIC acid, the naturally occurring dicarboxylic acid analogue of D-glucose, can be utilized as the sole source of carbon and energy by many Enterobacteria1 and Pseudomonads2. Blumenthal and Fish1 found that the induced catabolic pathway shown in Scheme 1 operated in all the Enterobacteria which they investigated (see Table 1).

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TRUDGILL, P., WIDDUS, R. D-Glucarate Catabolism by Pseudomonadaceae and Enterobacteriaceae. Nature 211, 1097–1099 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111097a0

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