INDEX 



93 



Coenzyme A, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47, 



48,51 

 Coenzyme A transphorase, 42, 43, 



46,51 

 Crotonase, 46, 47 

 Crotonate, 43 

 Crotonyl coenzyme A, 44, 46, 47, 



48, 49 

 Cysteine, 63 



Dihydroorotic acid, 76 

 6,8-Dihydroxypurine, 77 

 Diplococcus glycinophilus, 61, 63, 

 72 



Energy metabolism of CI. kluyveri, 

 48, 49, 50, 51 



Enrichment cultures, for bacteria 

 fermenting nitrogenous com- 

 pounds, 60, 61, 62, 63 

 for methane bacteria, 6 



Escherichia coli, 41, 64 



Ethanol, use by CI. kluyveri, 31- 

 32, 36, 40, 49 



Fatty acids, accumulation in bu- 

 tanol fermentation, 29-30, 50, 

 51 

 decomposition by methane bac- 

 teria, 9-12 



Formamide, 65, 66 



Formamidinoglutarate (see for- 

 miminoglutamate) 



Formate, formation of, 65, 78, 80, 

 81 

 role in H 2 formation, 29, 30, 35 



Formiminoglutamate, 65, 66 



Formiminoglycine, role in purine 

 fermentation, 83-87 



5-Formiminotetrahydrofolic acid, 

 85 



Formyl glutamate, 65, 66 

 10-Formyltetrahydrofolic acid, 85 

 Fusobacterium nucleatum, 64, 71 



Glutamate, fermentation by cell- 

 free extracts, 68-71 

 fermentation of, 60, 61, 64, 67- 



71 

 formation of, 65, 66 

 Glycine, fermentation of, 61, 72 

 reduction of, 58 



role in purine fermentation, 78, 

 79, 80, 81 

 Guanine, 77, 81 



Heptanoate synthesis, 49 



Histidine, decomposition of, 61, 

 64, 65, 66 



£-Hydroxybutrate, 37, 43 



0-Hydroxybutyryl coenzyme A, 46, 

 47, 48, 53 



/3-Hydroxybutyryl coenzyme A de- 

 hydrogenase, 46, 47 



Hypoxanthine, oxidation to xan- 

 thine, 81 



Imidazoles, role in xanthine de- 

 composition, 82-84 



/3-Ketocaproate, 49 

 /3-Ketocaproyl coenzyme A, 49 

 a-Ketoglutarate, formation from 

 glutamate, 69 



Lactate fermentation by butyric 



acid bacteria, 32, 33, 34 

 Leucine, fermentation of, 63 

 Lysine, fermentation of, 60, 64 



Mesaconate, role in glutamate fer- 

 mentation, 69, 70, 71 



