INDEX 



207 



Clostridium welchii, toxoid, 197 

 Coaspartase, 104, 163 

 Cobalt, 83 

 Cocarboxylase, 33 

 Coenzyme A, 34-5, 103, 153 

 Coenzyme I, formula, 3, 31 



— synthesis, 3, 100 



— systems, 42, 46-8 

 Coenzyme II, 32, 42, 46 

 Coenzymes, 31-5 

 Colony form, 12, 19 

 Commensal, 186 

 Compensatory enzyme formation, 



72-3 

 Competitive inhibition, 37-8, 114 

 Constitutive enzymes, 65 

 Copper, 34, 83 

 Corynebacterium diphtheriae, 20, 



197 

 Crystal violet, 12, 203 

 Cultural characteristics, 12 

 Cystathionine, 98 

 Cysteine, 49, 98, 105, 165, 174 



— desulphurase, 165 

 Cytochrome, 44-6, 150-2 



— reductase, 33, 41 



DEAMINASE formation, aero- 

 biosis effect, 71 



age of culture effect, 78 



glucose effect, 68 



|)H effect, 71-2 



Deamination, 159-67 



— anaerobes, 165-7 



— dehydration, 164 



— desaturation, 162 



— effect of pH, 159 



— hydrolytic, 163 



— oxidative, 160 



— reductive, 162 

 Decarboxylation, 6, 52-4, 79, 159, 



167-70 

 Dehydration, 5, 49 

 Dehydrogenases, 39-43, 44, 46, 48 

 Denitrification, 183 

 Dephosphorylation, 6, 55-6 

 Depressor drugs, 169 

 Desoxyribonucleic acid, 61 

 Desulphovibrio desulphuricans, 20 

 Diacetyl, 123, 138 



Diamines, 169 

 Dihydroxvacetone, 125-6, 140-1, 



ISO"' 

 Dihydroxyphenylalanine, 168 

 Dinucleotides, 31-2 

 Diphosphoglyceric acid, 125-6, 



130 

 Disintegration of cells, 29-30 

 Drug resistance, 63 



EBERTHELLA typhosa, 21, 22, 



62, 95, 99, 107, 108 

 Emmentaler cheese, 188 

 Energy, fermentation, 129-31 



— Methanobacter, 154-5 



— oxidation, 148-56 



— stores, 121, 131 

 Energy-rich bonds, 32, 55, 129 

 Enolase, 125, 127, 128, 129 

 Enterobacteriaceae, 16-18 

 Environmental ^H effect, 71-5 

 Enzyme formation, 58-84 



actual constitution, 63 



adaptive, 64-6 



age of culture effect, 76-80 



constitutive, 65 



glucose effect, 66-70 



- — • — mutation, 60-3 



— — pH effect, 67, 71-2 



potential constitution, 59-64 



precursor, 69 



salt requirement, 83 



suppression, 69 



temperature effect, 74-5 



Enzymes, 24-56 



— cell-free, 28-30, 146 



— effective activity, 72-4 



— extracellular, 29, 50, 79, 157, 



191, 195-6 



— fermentation, 124-9 



— nature of, 24, 30 



— optimum pH, 71-3 



— potential activity, 71-3 



— specificity, 25-6, 36-7 



-— substrate combination, 36 



— toxins as, 194-6 

 Escherichia coli, 20, 38 

 acetic oxidation, 153 



alanine deaminase, 67, 72, 



160 



