Open AccessCarbohydrate metabolism in some methylotrophic bacteria
Author(s) -
Green P.N.,
Gibson D.M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1984.tb01030.x
Subject(s) - monosaccharide , bacteria , biochemistry , carbohydrate metabolism , carbohydrate , biology , sugar , metabolism , microbial metabolism , permease , metabolic pathway , microbiology and biotechnology , chemistry , escherichia coli , genetics , gene
Some pink pigmented facultative methylotrophic bacteria (PPFMs) can utilize monosaccharides as a single carbon source. Assays of key enzymes of various pathways of carbohydrate metabolism indicate that such strains either metabolise glucose by the Entner‐Doudoroff pathway or lack a suitable permease for this sugar.