Growth of nocardio- and coryneform bacteria on media with low molecular weight alcohols
Gavrilenko, M.N.; Nesterenko, O.A.; Nogina, T.M.
Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal 41(5): 451-455
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0201-8462 PMID: 119140 Document Number: 145713
The assimilation of methanol, ethanol, n-propanol and n-butanol by Nocardia, Rhodococcus and Brevibacterium strains was studied. R. erythropolis, R. rubropertinctus, R. rhodochrous and R. aquosus assimilated ethanol better than n-propanol or n-butanol; methanol was not assimilated by these species. R. aquosus was the least active species in alcohol assimilation. No Brevibacterium strains assimilated alcohols.