Glucose 6-phosphate metabolic lates

In bacteria, the metabolism of o-xylose uptake is quite different from the one for D-glucose, which occurs by the Embden-Meyerhof-Pamas pathway (Jeffries 1983). D-xylose is degraded by the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) (also called hexose monophosphate pathway, pentose phosphate shtmt, phosphogluconate pathway) after being transported into the cell. Once inside the cell, it is either isomerized or reduced and then reoxidized to form o-xylulose. Further steps lead to phosphory-lated 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7-carbon sugars. Intermediates can then be used by other metabolic pathways to produce nucleic acids, aromatic amino acids, hpids, and other metabolic end products (Jeffries 1983). 

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