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ArticleScientific reports2018

Capacity for instantaneous catabolism of preferred and non-preferred carbon sources in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.

Marieke F Buffing, Hannes Link, Dimitris Christodoulou, Uwe Sauer

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marieke F BuffingInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Hannes LinkMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.
Dimitris ChristodoulouInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0646-6181
Uwe SauerInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. sauer@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.
ETH Zurich · CHMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Making the right choice for nutrient consumption in an ever-changing environment is a key factor for evolutionary success of bacteria. Here we investigate the regulatory mechanisms that enable dynamic adaptation between non-preferred and preferred carbon sources for the model Gram-negative and -positive species Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, respectively. We focus on the ability for instantaneous catabolism of a gluconeogenic carbon source upon growth on a glycolytic carbon source and vice versa. By following isotopic tracer dynamics on a 1-2 minute scale, we show that flux reversal from the preferred glucose to non-preferred pyruvate as the sole carbon source is primarily transcriptionally regulated. In the opposite direction, however, E. coli can reverse its flux instantaneously by means of allosteric regulation, whereas in B. subtilis this flux reversal is transcriptionally regulated. Upon removal of transcriptional regulation, B. subtilis assumes the ability of instantaneous glucose catabolism. Using an approach that combines quantitative metabolomics and kinetic modelling, we then identify the additionally necessary key metabolite-enzyme interactions that implement the instantaneous flux reversal in the transcriptionally deregulated B. subtilis, and validate the most relevant allosteric interactions.

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Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsCarbonEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGlucoseKineticsPyruvic AcidBacterial ProteinsCarbonGlucosePyruvic Acid

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PMID30082753
PMCPMC6079084
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