Abstract

The utilization of arginine was studied in several different Pseudomonas species. The arginine decarboxylase and agmatine deiminase pathways were found to be characteristic of Pseudomonas species of group I as defined by Palleroni et al. (1974). Pseudomonas putida strains had three distinct arginine catabolic pathways initiated by arginine decarboxylase, arginine deiminase and arginine oxidase, respectively. The two former routes were also present in P. fluorescens and P. mendocina and in P. aeruginosa which also used arginine by a further unknown pathway. None of these pathways occurred in P. cepacia strains; agmatine catabolism seemed to follow an unusual route involving guanidinobutyrate as intermediate.

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