Glucose metabolism of thraustochytrium roseum, a nonfilamentous marine phycomycete

✍ Scribed by Belsky, Melvin M. ;Goldstein, Solomon

• Book ID: 104760867
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1964
• Weight: 451 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-9276
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00406858

✦ Synopsis

An investigation was begun to elucidate pathways of glucose dissimilation in Thraustochytrium roseum, a unicellular, zoospore-producing marine fungus. Although lower Phycomycetes are a common component of the littoral microflora (VIs~IAC 1956) and possess unusual morphogenetic and nutritional characteristics (ADAI~ and VIs~IAC 1958 ; GOLD-ST]~ 1963 a, 1964), the literature is devoid of any reference to studies of ~heir intermediary metabolism. Interest in the carbohydrate metabolism of T. roseum was intensified upon detecting its capacity for light stimulated growth (GoL])ST~IN 1963b), a phenomenon examined intensively in only one other aquatic fungus, Blastocladiella emersonii (CA~TINO and tIom~-sT]~I~ 1956, 1957, 1959).