IN the first paper of this series, the author [Gale, 1940] showed that washed suspensions of Bact. coli will decarboxylate 1( + )-arginine, 1( + )-lysine, l(+)-ornithine, 1(-)-histidine and l(+)-glutamic acid to form agmatine, cadaverine, putrescine, histamine and y-aminobutyric acid respectively. Of 14 strains of coliform organisms investigated, 12 decarboxylated arginine, 12 histidine, 13 lys...
