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RECENT work by Halvorson and Church1,2 has shown that the spores of Bacillus cereus var. terminalis contain a functional hexose monophosphate oxidative pathway but no Embden-Meyerhof pathway. Our studies, however, show that the spores of Bacillus coagulans var. thermoacidurans (A.T.C.C. 8038) have a complete glycolytic enzyme system which seems to play an important part in the early stages of germination.
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AMAHA, M., NAKAHARA, T. Role of the Glycolytic Enzyme System in the Germination of Spores of Bacillus coagulans var. thermoacidurans . Nature 184, 1255–1256 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841255a0
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