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. 1975 Jun;88(2):218-22.
doi: 10.1099/00221287-88-2-218.

Microbiodies in methanol-grown Candida boidinii

H Sahm, R Roggenkamp, F Wagner, W Hinkelmann

Microbiodies in methanol-grown Candida boidinii

H Sahm et al. J Gen Microbiol. 1975 Jun.

Abstract

Intracellular structures were observed in Candida boidinii grown in a medium containing methanol as the sole source of carbon and energy; these structures were absent in the same organism grown in the presence of glucose or ethanol. These substrate-specific structures are ultrastructurally similar to microbodies. Studies with sphaeroplast and a mutant lacking alcohol-oxidase activity indicate that the alcohol may be located in these microbodies.

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