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Because of the similarity in nutritive requirements of microorganisms and experimental animals, it is possible to use microorganisms to determine quantitatively many of the substances that are known to be essential constituents of all living cells (Snell 1945). The requirements of certain microorganisms for specific nutritional factors reflect a loss of their ability to synthesize those factors (Snell 1946). At present, microorganisms are known that require each of the water-soluble vitamins (with the possible exception of ascorbic acid) and each of the amino acids required by higher animals. The fundamental similarity in the metabolic requirements of various organisms has facilitated greatly identification of the essential nutrients for both microorganisms and animals. Similarly, the use of microorganisms for the quantitative determination of the vitamins (Koser 1948; Peterson and Peterson 1945; Snell 1949) and the amino acids, purines, and pyrimidines (Hendlin 1952; Snell 1945, 1949) that they require is rapidly extending our knowledge of the distribution and importance of these substances in nature. The recognition that the effectiveness of antibiotic agents may sometimes be due to their interaction with essential cellular metabolites and that antibacterial agents can often be fashioned by varying the structure of known essential metabolites in a suitable manner has served further to intensify interest in microbial nutrition.

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Pomeranz, Y., Meloan, C.E. (1994). Analytical Microbiology. In: Food Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6998-5_31

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