703 Adden(lum 



f. PYRROLES, PORPHYRINS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS 



A dissertation has been published on a prodigiosin-like 

 pigment.^'"' 



A partial synthesis of vitamin B,;. has been re- 

 ported/^"' ^'^'^ 



Guanosine diphosphate factor B and B diphosphate ester 

 have been indentified as intermediates in the biosynthesis 

 of vitamin Bio.^"*" 



A dissertation has been published on the biosynthesis 

 of members of the vitamin Bj^. group/"" '"^ 



A report has been made on the preparation and proper- 

 ties of purified intrinsic factor. The purified material is 

 a better Bjo binder than the crude, and it is not a muco- 

 protein as previously believed.^®* 



A publication on the biosynthesis of uroporphyrin III 

 from porphobilinogen reported that uroporphyrinogen I 

 is not an intermediate in the biosynthesis of uroporphy- 

 rinogen UW 



A pink pigment identified as coproporphyrin III was 

 isolated from Mycobacterium tuberculosis avium^^* as it 

 had been earlier from Mycobacterium karlinski}^^ 



At least two kinds of chlorophylls have been shown to 

 be present in green bacteria.'"*^ 



^^•^ Roswltha Zimmer-Galler, Dissertation, Technische Hochschule, 

 Miinchen, 1960. 



^'*' K. Bernhauer, F. Wagner, Hw. Dellweg and P. Zeller, Helv. 

 Chim. Acta 43 700 (1960). 



iss-yy Friedrich, G. Gross, K. Bernhauer and P. Zeller, ibid. 43 



704 (1960). 



i**^ G. Boretti, A. dlMarco, L. Fuoco, M. Marnatl, A. Migliacci and 

 C. Spalla, Biochim. et Biophys. Acta 37 379 (1960). 



1"" Fred Sanders, Dissertation Abstr. 18 2189 (1959). 



1"^ F. Sanders and Gerald R. Seaman, /. Bacteriol. 79 619 (1960). 



"- Leon Ellenbogen and William L. Williams, Biochem. and 

 Biophys. Res. Comms. 2 340 (1960). 



^''■' Lawrence Bogorad and Gerald S. Marks, Biochim. et Biophys. 

 Acta 41 358 (1960). 



^^D. S. P. Patterson, Biochem. J. 76 189 (1960). 



195 c. M. Todd, ibid. 45 386 (1949). 



^^^ R. Y. Stanier and J. H. C. Smith, Biochim. et Biophys. Acta 41 

 478 (1960). 



