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Organic acid mediated repression of sugar utilization in rhizobia.
Microbiological research - 1 Nov 2016
Iyer Bhagya, Rajput Mahendrapal Singh, Jog Rahul, Joshi Ekta, Bharwad Krishna, Rajkumar Shalini
Abstract excerpt
Rhizobia are a class of symbiotic diazotrophic bacteria which utilize C4 acids in preference to sugars and the sugar utilization is repressed as long as C4 acids are present. This can be manifested as a diauxie when rhizobia are grown in the presence of a sugar and a C4 acid together. Succinate, a C4 acid is known to repress utilization of sugars, sugar alcohols, hydrocarbons, etc by a mechanism termed as...
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