Table 1.

B. subtilis strains used

Strain	Description of deleted gene
Wild-type	168 trpC2
pgi	P-glucoisomerase
yqjI	6-P-gluconate dehydrogenase
sdhC	Succinyl-CoA dehydrogenase component
ytsJ	Malic enzyme
mdh	Malate dehydrogenase
pps	PEP synthetase
ccpA	Main carbon catabolite repressor
cggR	Repressor of the gapA operon
glcP	Hexose/H+ symporter
glcR	Repressor of PTS system

Strains were provided by S. Aymerich (INRA, CNRS, Thiverval-Grignon, France) and K. Kobayashi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan) [17].