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1: J Bacteriol. 1998 Feb;180(4):985-8.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Both acetate kinase and acetyl coenzyme A synthetase are involved in acetate-stimulated change in the direction of flagellar rotation in Escherichia coli.

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Escherichia coli strains overproducing the response regulator CheY respond to acetate by increasing their clockwise bias of flagellar rotation, even when they lack other chemotaxis proteins. With acetate metabolism mutants, we demonstrate that both acetate kinase and acetyl coenzyme A synthetase are involved in this response. Thus, a response was observed when one of these enzymes was missing but not when both were absent.

PMID: 9473056 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC106981