Affiliation:
1. Department of Biochemistry, Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
Abstract
Sable, Henry
Z. (Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio)
and Elayne E. Cassisi
. Biosynthesis and biosynthetic pathways of pentoses in
Escherichia coli
. J. Bacteriol.
84:
1169–1172. 1962.—Resting glucose-adapted
Escherichia coli
supplied with glucose continues to synthesize pentose by the oxidative pathway characteristic of logarithmically growing glucose-adapted cells. This behavior is unlike that of acetate-adapted resting
E. coli
supplied with glucose, which continues to synthesize most of its pentose by the nonoxidative pathway characteristic of acetate-adapted cells. When infected with bacteriophage T2H,
E. coli
continues to use the oxidative pathway predominantly. This finding is in contrast to reports that infection with T6r+ bacteriophage increases the participation of a nonoxidative pathway. Resting glucose-adapted
E. coli
supplied with acetate-1-C
14
as sole carbon source synthesizes pentose by a pathway or pathways which cannot be assessed completely by methods previously developed (which are based on the relative labeling of C-1, C-2, and C-3 of the pentose) but which is most probably predominantly nonoxidative.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
10 articles.
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