Rethinking the Hierarchy of Sugar Utilization in Bacteria
Year: 2015
Type: editorial
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.
Source: Journal of Bacteriology
DOI: 10.1128/jb.00890-15
Authors: Chase L. Beisel, Taliman Afroz
Institution: North Carolina State University
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2209985030