Abstract
A strain of Burkholderia cepacia isolated by enrichment culture utilized L-2-amino-3-phosphonopropionic acid (phosphonoalanine) at concentrations up to 20 mM as a carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus source in a phosphate-insensitive manner. Cells contained phosphoenolpyruvate phosphomutase activity, presumed to be responsible for cleavage of the C-P bond of phosphonopyruvate, the transamination product of L-phosphonoalanine; this was inducible in the presence of phosphonoalanine.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2291-2294 |
| Journal | Applied and Environmental Microbiology |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - Jun 1998 |