Erratum The original version of this article [1] unfortunately contained a mistake. The formula concentration described in the “Treatments” section was provided incorrectly. The corrected text is available below: “The SBCG1 treatment was a solution with sodium bicarbonate and calcium gluconate, both at a concentration of 0.75 % (w/v); and SBCG2 had the same concentration of sodium bicarbonate t...

We have isolated a mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa deficient in fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase activity. This mutant, similar to the mutants deficient in any of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway enzymes, does not allow appreciable alginate formation from glucose and gluconate, but allows alginate synthesis from mannitol and fructose. This suggests that glucose and gluconate must be converted to...

Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PAL3 was grown in a chemostat with N(2) and mixtures of xylose and gluconate. Xylose was oxidized to xylonate, which was accumulated in the culture supernatants. Biomass yields and carbon from gluconate incorporated into biomass increased with the rate of xylose oxidation. By using metabolic balances it is demonstrated that extracellular xylose oxidation led N(2...

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Objective To determine the toxicity of the potential fungicide chlorhexidine gluconate (as a pure 0.2% solution and as a commercially available skin antiseptic diluted to contain 0.2% chlorhexidine gluconate) to the cornea and adjacent ocular structures. Methods An experimental study was performed at the Animal Facility of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Pure chlorhexidine gluconate 0....

With radioisotopes, it was shown that suspensions of Mycobacterium leprae oxidized glycerol, 6-phosphogluconate, glucose, glucose 6-phosphate, and, at a low rate, gluconate, to CO2. The incubation period in these experiments was usually 20 h, but after 140 h up to five times more glucose and gluconate had been converted to CO2. Studies with differentially labelled glucose indicated that glycoly...

The common cold has been estimated to cost the United States > $3.5 billion per year. Despite several randomized clinical trials, the effect of treating colds with zinc gluconate remains uncertain due to conflicting results. We conducted a meta-analysis of published randomized clinical trials on the use of zinc gluconate lozenges in colds using the random effects model of DerSimonians and Laird...

Biosynthesis of the red, tripyrrole antibiotic prodigiosin (Pig) by Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 (39006) is controlled by a complex regulatory network involving an N-acyl homoserine lactone (N-AHL) quorum-sensing system, at least two separate two-component signal transduction systems and a multitude of other regulators. In this study, a new transcriptional activator, PigT, and a physiological cue (g...