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The pathway of PHBt biosynthesis has not been fully investigated for any one genus of micro- organisms in which it is produced. A particulate fraction isolated by these authors from either R. rubrum or Bacillus mega- terium KM was found to incorporate radioactivity into PHB from D(-)-fl-hydroxy[U-14C]butyryl-CoA. The association of PHB synthetase with native granules isolated and purified from B. megaterium was confirmed by A particulate membrane-bound PHB synthetase from Azotobacter beijerinckii has been characterized and, as for the B. megaterium enzyme, shown to possess a functional thiol group (Ritchie, 1968).
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