Article
L-lyxose metabolism employs the L-rhamnose pathway in mutant cells of Escherichia coli adapted to grow on L-lyxose.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 1991
Badia J, Gimenez R, Baldomá L, Barnes E, Fessner W D, Aguilar J
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli cannot grow on L-lyxose, a pentose analog of the 6-deoxyhexose L-rhamnose, which supports the growth of this and other enteric bacteria. L-Rhamnose is metabolized in E. coli by a system that consists of a rhamnose permease, rhamnose isomerase, rhamnulose kinase, and rhamnulose-1-phosphate aldolase, which yields the degradation products dihydroxyacetone phosphate and L-lactaldehyde. This aldehyde...
Topics
- Acetaldehyde
- Aldehyde Oxidoreductases
- Aldehyde-Lyases
- Aldose-Ketose Isomerases
- Carbohydrate Epimerases
- Chromatography
- Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins