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Abstract

Both and utilize arginine as an energy source via the arginine dihydrolase (ADH) pathway. It has been previously demonstrated that forms a stable intracellular relationship with ; hence, in this study we examined the interaction of two localized ADH pathways by comparing strain SS22 with the laboratory-generated strain SS22-MOZ2 infected with MOZ2. The presence of resulted in an approximately 16-fold increase in intracellular ornithine and a threefold increase in putrescine, compared with control cultures. No change in the activity of enzymes of the ADH pathway could be demonstrated in SS22-MOZ2 compared with the parent SS22, and the increased production of ornithine could be attributed to the presence of Using metabolic flow analysis it was determined that the elasticity of enzymes of the ADH pathway in SS22-MOZ2 was unchanged compared with the parent SS22; however, the elasticity of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) in SS22 was small, and it was doubled in SS22-MOZ2 cells. The potential benefit of this relationship to both and is discussed.

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