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Aliphatic Acid Inhibitors: Interference with Ketopantoate Utilization for Pantothenate Biosynthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

J. L. Hilton
J. L. Hilton*
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
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Abstract

Propionate, 3-chloropropionate, and 2,2-dichloropropionate (dalapon) inhibited growth of Escherichia coli 99-4, a mutant organism incapable of growth in the absence of α-ketopantoate. Growth inhibitions were circumvented by increasing the concentration of ketopantoate. Aliphatic acids (K+ salts) apparently inhibit biosynthesis of pantothenate at two metabolic sites—conversion of ketopantoate to pantoate and formation of pantothenate from pantoate. The latter inhibition has been reported previously.

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Brief Papers
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Weeds , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1966 , pp. 174 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 Weed Science Society of America 

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