STUDIES ON DEXTRANSUCRASE

I. FORMATION OF RIBOFLAVINYLGLUCOSIDE IN DEXTRAN-PRODUCING CULTURES OF LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES

Abstract

During the investigations on the synthesis of glucose polymers by micro-organisms, it was found that strains of Leuconostoc mesenteroides produced a large amount of riboflavinylglucoside from sucrose in the presence of riboflavin in their growing cultures and under the same cultural conditions dextran was ascertained to be produced by the bacteria.