Phosphorylation coupled with anaerobic breakdown of citrulline

Abstract

It has recently been demonstrated that preparations obtained from various micro-organisms are capable of converting citrulline into ornithine, ammonia and carbon dioxide. This reaction has been found in Streptococcus faecali treated with toluene (Akamatsu & Sekine, 1951), or acetone (Oginsky & Gehrig, 1952), in freeze-dried cells of Clostridium perfringens (Schmidt, Logan & Tytell, 1952) and cell-free extracts of Streptococcus lactis (Korzenovsky & With regard to the mech- anism of the reaction, it is relevant that washed suspensions of Strep. faecalis, treated with cetyl-