PMID:4563983
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Rolls, JP and Shuster, CW (1972) Amino sugar assimilation by Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 112:894-902 |
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| Abstract |
The carbon skeleton of glucose is extensively randomized during conversion to cell wall glucosamine by Escherichia coli K-12. Exogenous glucosamine-1-(14)C is selectively oxidized, and isotope incorporation into cellular glucosamine is greatly diluted during assimilation. A mutant unable to grow with N-acetylglucosamine as a carbon and energy source was isolated from E. coli K-12. This mutant was found to be defective in glucosamine-6-phosphate deaminase. Glucosamine-1-(14)C and N-acetylglucosamine-1-(14)C were assimilated during the growth of mutant cultures without degradation or carbon randomization. Assimilated isotopic carbon resided entirely in cell wall glucosamine and muramic acid. Some isotope dilution occurred from biosynthesis, but at high concentrations (0.2 mm) of added N-acetylglucosamine nearly all cellular amino sugar was derived from the exogenous source. Growth of the mutant was inhibited with 1 mmN-acetylglucosamine. |
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Amidohydrolases/metabolism; Amino Sugars/biosynthesis; Amino Sugars/metabolism; Aminohydrolases/metabolism; Carbohydrate Epimerases/metabolism; Cell Wall/metabolism; Cell-Free System; Chromatography, Paper; Culture Media; Electrophoresis, Paper; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/growth & development; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Genetics, Microbial; Glucosamine/metabolism; Glucose/metabolism; Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase/metabolism; Lipopolysaccharides/biosynthesis; Mucoproteins/biosynthesis; Mutation; Phenylalanine/metabolism; Polysaccharides, Bacterial/biosynthesis; Spectrophotometry; Transaminases/metabolism |
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