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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1966 November; 14(6): 1022-1026
Copyright © 1966 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Amino Acid and Vitamin Requirements of Several Bacteroides Strains

Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky

ABSTRACT

Nutritional studies were performed on nine Bacteroides strains, by use of the methodology and media of anaerobic rumen microbiology. Ristella perfoetens CCI required L-arginine hydrochloride, L-tryptophan, L-leucine, L-histidine hydrochloride, L-cysteine hydrochloride, DL-valine, DL-tyrosine, and the vitamin calcium-D-pantothenate, since scant turbidity developed in media without these nutrients. R. perfoetens was stimulated by glycine, DL-lysine hydrochloride, DL-isoleucine, L-proline, L-glutamic acid, DL-alanine, DL-phenylalanine, DL-methionine, and the vitamins nicotinamide and p-aminobenzoic acid, since maximal turbidity developed more slowly in media without these nutrients than in complete medium. Medium A-23, which was devised for R. perfoetens, contained salts, 0.0002% nicotinamide and calcium D-pantothenate, 0.00001% p-aminobenzoic acid, 0.044% L-tryptophan, 0.09% L-glutamic acid, and 0.1% of the other 13 amino acids listed above. Zuberella clostridiformis and seven strains of R. pseudoinsolita did not require vitamins, and showed no absolute requirement for any one amino acid. Various strains produced maximal turbidity more slowly in media deficient in L-proline, glycine, L-glutamic acid, DL-serine, L-histidine hydrochloride, DL-alanine, or L-cysteine hydrochloride, than in complete medium. These eight strains grew optimally in medium A-23 plus 0.1% DL-serine but without vitamins.