Pathways of glucose dissimilation by Streptomyces olivaceus.

There is considerable evidence for the existence of alternate pathways of glucose dissimilation in microbial systems (1). Several organisms belonging to the genus Xtreptomyces have been investigated by some workers (2, 3). Hockenhull et al. (4), Ganguly and Roy (5), and Wang et al. (6) have particularly studied Streptomyces griseus and showed that this organism utilizes both the glycolytic and the hexose monophosphate pathways for the metabolism of glucose. In the present investigation a similar study has been made on Streptomyces olivaceus, a species of the same genus that is exploited industrially for the production of vitamin Blz (7).