Veillonella alcalescens

Griffith, M.J. Nishimura, J.S. Acetate kinase from Veillonella alcalescens. Purification and physical properties. J. Biol. Chem., 254, 442-446 (1979)... 

Kamio, Y., and Nakamura, K. (1987). Putrescine and cadaverine are constituents of peptidogly-cane in Veillonella alcalescens and Veillonela parvula. J. Bacteriol. 169(6), 2881-2884. 

The same reduced and azo compounds have been isolated by McCormick et al. [5] (Figure 2). They foimd that the nitro groups of TNT were reduced by both aerobic and anaerobic systems, and that the number of the nitro groups reduced depended on the reducing potential of the system and on the species utilized. Cell-free extracts of Veillonella alcalescens utilized 3 moles of to reduce 1 mole of nitro group. The... 

A. Hoffmann, W. Hilpert and P. Dimroth, "The carboxyltransferase activity of the sodium-ion-translocating methylmalonyl-CoA decarboxylase of Veillonella alcalescens", European Journal of Biochemistry 179,645-650 (1989). 

Veillonella alcalescens Clostridium pasteurianum TNT 40 various nitro compounds, including nitrophenols nitrobenzoates nitrotoluenes McCormick et al. (32)... 

Little is known about enzymes that may be involved in the reduction of TNT by strictly anaerobic bacteria (32, 39). The reduction of TNT by enzymes from anaerobic organisms has been investigated by McCormick et al. (32). The authors postulated that Veillonella alcalescens nitroreductase consisted of hydrogenase and a ferredoxin-like material that could be separated by ion exclusion chromatography. 

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