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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1979; 2(1):25-28

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1979.2.1.25

Original Article

Effect of Vitamin B12 on Nucleic Acid Metabolism in Lactobacillus leichmanii (Effect of Allicin on Nucleic Acid Metabolism)

Hae Kyung Park
Corresponding author: Hae-Kyung, Park. Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1979. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Vitamin B12 is required during growth of Lactobacillus leichmanii. At a concentration allicin stimulated the action of vitamin B12 and also had the same effect on DNA synthesis by isotope experiment.