The utilisation of alkylated amines by marine bacteria

✍ Scribed by J. A. Budd; C. P. Spencer

• Book ID: 104735384
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 951 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0025-3162
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00351645

✦ Synopsis

Al)gtraet

Six species of bacteria and a marine yeast which are able to use alkylated amines as a sole sourc~ of nitrogen have been isolated from marine mud and tentatively assigned to genera.

One isolate (Micrococcus sp.) has been studied in greater detail.

This organism has a constitutive ability to utilise trimethylamine and the lesser methylated amines as a sole source of nitrogen. Growth and metabolic studies suggest that the methylated amines axe metabolized by a pathway involving a stepwise demethylation process. The implications of the results obtained on the route of regeneration and recycling of amine nitrogen in the marine environment is discussed.