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Activation of an Otherwise Silent Xylose Metabolic Pathway in Shewanella oneidensis.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2016
Sekar Ramanan, Shin Hyun Dong, DiChristina Thomas J
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Shewanella oneidensis is unable to metabolize the sugar xylose as a carbon and energy source. In the present study, an otherwise silent xylose catabolic pathway was activated in S. oneidensis by following an adaptive evolution strategy. Genome-wide scans indicated that the S. oneidensis genome encoded two proteins similar to the xylose oxido-reductase pathway enzymes xylose reductase (SO_0900) and...
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