| Literature DB >> 4553005 |
M E Doyle, C Brown, R W Hogg, R B Helling.
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The inducer specificity and kinetics of induction of the ara operon were examined in Escherichia coli B/r. A difference in the kinetics of induction was found between our B/r strains and the K-12 strain previously described by Schleif. The roles of active transport and metabolism of inducer, and of cell density, in induction were studied. d-Fucose and beta-methyl-l-arabinoside were competitive inhibitors of induction. No inducer of the wild-type strain other than l-arabinose was found. However, a procedure for selecting mutants with altered inducer affinity or specificity was developed. The properties of one such mutant (inducible by d-fucose) are described.Entities:
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Year: 1972 PMID: 4553005 PMCID: PMC247378 DOI: 10.1128/jb.110.1.56-65.1972
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490