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Molecular and Physiological Logics of the Pyruvate-Induced Response of a Novel Transporter in Bacillus subtilis.
mBio - 3 Oct 2017
Charbonnier Teddy, Le Coq Dominique, McGovern Stephen, Calabre Magali, Delumeau Olivier, Aymerich Stéphane, Jules Matthieu
Abstract excerpt
At the heart of central carbon metabolism, pyruvate is a pivotal metabolite in all living cells. Bacillus subtilis is able to excrete pyruvate as well as to use it as the sole carbon source. We herein reveal that ysbAB (renamed pftAB), the only operon specifically induced in pyruvate-grown B. subtilis cells, encodes a hetero-oligomeric membrane complex which operates as a facilitated transport system specific for...
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