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Journal of Bacteriology, November 1999, p. 7126-7130, Vol. 181, No. 22
Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute
of Molecular Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Received 2 August 1999/Accepted 8 September 1999
Genes involved in allose utilization of Escherichia
coli K-12 are organized in at least two operons,
alsRBACE and alsI, located next to each other
on the chromosome but divergently transcribed. Mutants defective in
alsI (allose 6-phosphate isomerase gene) and
alsE (allulose 6-phosphate epimerase gene) were
Als
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D-Allose Catabolism of
Escherichia coli: Involvement of alsI and
Regulation of als Regulon Expression by Allose and
Ribose
and
. Transcription of the two allose operons, measured as
-galactosidase activity specified by
alsI-lacZ+ or
alsE-lacZ+ operon fusions, was induced by
allose. Ribose also caused derepression of expression of the regulon
under conditions in which ribose phosphate catabolism was impaired.
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