On the Metabolism of Organic Acids by Clostridium acetobutylicum

Part VII. Reduction of Crotonic Acid

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Molecular hydrogen was capable of generating the reduced coenzymes by the hydrogenase system of Clostridium acetobutylicum. It was pointed out that crotonic acid was activated and reduced quantitatively to butyric acid by intact cells and cell-free preparation of this organism in the presence of acetyl phosphate, 2, 3-dimercaptopropanol (BAL) and hydrogengas.