Staphylococcus aureus is an eminent human pathogen that can colonize the human host
and cause severe life-threatening illnesses. This bacterium can reside in and infect a wide …

The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP): carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS)
carries out both catalytic and regulatory functions. It catalyzes the transport and …

The phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP): carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) is found
only in bacteria, where it catalyzes the transport and phosphorylation of numerous …

Numerous gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria take up carbohydrates through the
phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP): carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS). This system …

The complete genome sequence of Treponema pallidum was determined and shown to be
1,138,006 base pairs containing 1041 predicted coding sequences (open reading frames) …

Bacteria live in environments that are subject to rapid changes in the availability of the
nutrients that are necessary to provide energy and biosynthetic intermediates for the …

The pathogenic clostridia cause many human and animal diseases, which typically arise as
a consequence of the production of potent exotoxins. Among the enterotoxic clostridia …

▪ Abstract The gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis is capable of using numerous
carbohydrates as single sources of carbon and energy. In this review, we discuss the …

CcpA, the repressor/activator mediating carbon catabolite repression and glucose activation
in many Gram‐positive bacteria, has been purified from Bacillus megaterium after fusing it to …

Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) by transcriptional regulators follows different
mechanisms in gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. In gram-positive bacteria, CcpA …