Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Bacteria are known to consume some sugars over others, although recent work reported by Koirala and colleagues in this issue of the
Journal of Bacteriology
(S. Koirala, X. Wang, and C. V. Rao, J Bacteriol 198:386–393, 2016,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.00709-15
) revealed that individual cells do not necessarily follow this hierarchy. By studying the preferential consumption of
l
-arabinose over
d
-xylose in
Escherichia coli
, those authors found that subpopulations consume one, the other, or both sugars through cross-repression between utilization pathways. Their findings challenge classic assertions about established hierarchies and can guide efforts to engineer the simultaneous utilization of multiple sugars.
Funder
National Science Foundation
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
25 articles.
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