Article
Utilisation of glycerol and glycerol 3-phosphate is differently affected by the phosphotransferase system in Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS microbiology letters - 15 Dec 1992
Beijer L, Rutberg L
Abstract excerpt
Glycerol and glycerol 3-phosphate uptake in Bacillus subtilis does not involve the phosphotransferase system. In spite of this, B. subtilis mutants defective in the general components of the phosphotransferase system, EnzymeI or Hpr, are unable to grow with glycerol as sole carbon and energy source. Here we show that a Hpr mutant can grow on glycerol 3-phosphate and that glycerol 3-phosphate, but not glycerol,...
Topics
- Bacillus subtilis
- Chromosome Mapping
- Genes, Bacterial
- Glycerol
- Glycerophosphates
- Mutation
- Phosphotransferases