[Features of amino acid assimilation by representatives of the Mycoplasma genus].

Amino acid assimilation by different representatives of Mycoplasma genus has been investigated. All typical strains, involved in this research--Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. capricolum, M. hominis, M. mycoides subsp. capri, M. fermentans, M. salivarium were able to assimilate asparagine, glutamine, threonine, histidine and tryptophan. Most of the investigated mycoplasmas were able to assimilate proline, phenylalanine, methionine, glutamate, lysine, serine, tyrosine, glycine, valine, isoleucine and alanine; assimilation of leucine and cysteine was observed rarely. Each of the investigated species of mycoplasmas are characterized by a specific spectrum of assimilated amino acids that can be used as additional characteristic for systematics of mollicutes.