Growth of Pseudomonas cepacia 249 on D-threonine required a mutation to permit D-hydroxyamino acid deaminase formation and L-valine to overcome alpha-ketobutyrate toxicity. Strain 249 lacked a second D-hydroxyamino acid deaminase formed by other strains.
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Wong et al. (1980) studied this question.