Identification and characterization of a cryptic D-serine deaminase (DSD) gene from Burkholderia cepacia

Isolates of Burkholderia cepacia differed in their ability to utilize D-serine as a carbon and energy source. Strain 17616 is one of the strains which ordinarily fails to utilize D-serine. D-serine also inhibited the growth of this strain on alternative carbon sources such as mannitol. D-serine resi...

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Main Author: Montgomery, Stacy O
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1998
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9909192