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Inducer expulsion is not a determinant of diauxic growth in Streptococcus bovis.
Current microbiology - 1 Apr 1996
Kearns D B, Cook G M, Russell J B
Abstract excerpt
When Streptococcus bovis JB1 was repeatedly transferred in a medium that contained the non-metabolizable glucose analog, 2-deoxyglucose, it lost its phosphotransferase system (PTS) for glucose but was still able to take up glucose via a facilitated diffusion mechanism. The wild type (JB1) had an inducible enzyme II lactose, but the mutant (JB1(2DG)) had a constitutive lactose PTS. JB1(2DG) was no longer able to...
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