Bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate: sugar phosphotransferase systems: structural, functional, and evolutionary interrelationships.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION.856 TRANSPORT MECHANISMS IN BACTERIA .................................. 856 ACTIVE AND EXCHANGE GROUP TRANSLOCATION OF SUGARS CATALYZED BY THE BACTERIAL PTS .................................... 857 PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE PTS ................................. 859 DISTRIBUTION OF TIE PTS IN THE PROCARYOTIC WORLD ...... ........ 862 REGULATION OF GENES CODING FOR THE PROTEIN CONSTITUENTS OF THE PTS IN S. TYPIMfUR1UM AND IL COLI ............................... 864 PROPERTIES OF A FRUCTOSE-SPECIFIC PTS IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA ............................................................... 866 PROPERTIES OF A MANNITOL-SPECIFIC PTS IN S. AURAN7IA ............ 866 PROPOSED PATHWAY FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE EUBACTERIAL PTS 868 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................... 870 LITERATURE CITED ......................................................... 870