Abstract
About the glycerol-oxidation by Bact. succinicum SAKAGUCHI et TADA, the following results were obtained by an experiment using dried cells or extract fronr ground cells.
1. Inorganic phosphate was required for glycerol-oxidation and this phosphorylation was de-monstrated as the so-called “oxidative phosphorylation”
2. The first metabolite of the phosphorylation was α-glycerophosphoric acid.
3. While a small amount of dioxyacetone was obtained as an other product of glycerol-oxi-dation.
4. Mainly, glycerol was oxidized to carbon dioxide by the TCA-cycle.
