Abstract
In Escherichia coli K-12 the proteins involved in the dissimilation of mannitol and sorbitol are specified by two separate gene clusters. The mannitol cluster appears to consist of a regulatory gene mtlC, a gene mtlA coding an enzyme II complex of the phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system, and a gene mtlD coding a mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase. Three corresponding genes, sblC, sblA, and sblD, exist for the sorbitol pathway. In both pathways the hexitol captured from the medium and delivered into the cytoplasm as a phosphorylated compound is dehydrogenated to fructose-6-phosphate. The enzyme II complex for sorbitol is able to catalyze the phosphorylation also of mannitol if this substrate is present at high concentrations. Consequently mtlA− mutants lacking the enzyme II complex for mannitol can grow on mannitol either if the sorbitol phosphorylating system is preinduced by sorbitol or if mtlA is suppressed by a mutation of sblC to constitutivity. In wild-type cells, the induction of the enzymes in the mannitol pathway and dissimilation of the substrate are not prevented by glucose. The sorbitol system, however, is sensitive to glucose and to mannitol as well. In the suppressed strains (mtlA−, sblCc) in which mannitol is utilized through the sorbitol enzyme, glucose becomes effective in restraining the consumption of mannitol, causing a definite diauxie. Moreover, in a mixture of mannitol and sorbitol, the latter is utilized preferentially. This reversal of normal diauxic pattern is consequent to the fact that the enzyme II complex for sorbitol has relatively poor affinity for mannitol.
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