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Adaptive evolution of Escherichia coli inactivated in the phosphotransferase system operon improves co-utilization of xylose and glucose under anaerobic conditions.
Applied biochemistry and biotechnology - 1 Feb 2011
Balderas-Hernández Victor Emmanuel, Hernández-Montalvo Verónica, Bolívar Francisco, Gosset Guillermo, Martínez Alfredo
Abstract excerpt
Modification of the phosphoenolpyruvate/sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) has shown improvement in sugar coassimilation in Escherichia coli production strains. However, in preliminary experiments under anaerobic conditions, E. coli strains with an inactive PTS and carrying pLOI1594, which encodes pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase from Zymomonas mobilis, were unable to grow. These PTS⁻ strains...
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- Anaerobiosis
- Culture Techniques
- Escherichia coli
- Ethanol
- Glucose
- Kinetics
