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Rethinking the Hierarchy of Sugar Utilization in Bacteria

Author(s) -

Chase L. Beisel,

Taliman Afroz

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of bacteriology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.652

H-Index - 246

eISSN - 1067-8832

pISSN - 0021-9193

DOI - 10.1128/jb.00890-15

Subject(s) - biology , bacteria , sugar , hierarchy , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , genetics , economics , market economy

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.

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