Vegetarians and Vegans Because B12 is primarily found in animal-based foodssuch as meat, eggs, poultry, and dairyvegetarians and especially vegans are at high risk for deficiency
We previously demonstrated that growth attenuation of rv1127c in propionate is rescued by the addition of either vitamin B 12 or acetate (Basu et al, 2018), data that phenocopies Mtb mutants lacking MCC enzymes (Lee et al, 2013), thus supporting an unexpected role for Rv1127c in the MCC (Borah et al, 2021)
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