Pseudomonas sugar phosphates

Comparable to the situation for the sialic acid and KDO lyases (vide supra), sets of stereochemically complementary pyruvate lyases are known, e,g. in Pseudomonas strains, which act on related 2-keto-3-deoxy-aldonic acids [112]. The enzymes cleaving six-carbon sugar acid phosphates—the KdgA and 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phospho-D-galactonate (20) aldolases (KDPGal aldolase EC 4.1.2.21) [139] — are typified as class I enzymes, whereas those acting on non-phosphorylated five-carbon substrates — 2-keto-3-deoxy-L-arabonate (21) (KDAra aldolase EC 4.1.2,18) [140, 141] and 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-xylonate (22)... 

Pathways in the formation of NDP-sugars. A seiection of monosaccharide conversions occurring at the phosphate ester and nucieotide-monosaccharide ievei in animais, piants and bacteria are shown all pathways radiate from fructose-6-phosphate, indicating the central role of this metabolite. The dTDP, GDP and UDP-yV-acetylmu-ramic pathways are peculiar to bacteria, whereas ADP-o-glucose, UDP-o-apiose and UDP-L-arabinose are found in plants. For reasons of simplicity, other pathways, e. g., to UDP-L-rhamnose in plants, GDP-o-rhamnose in Pseudomonas aeroginosa and GDP-o-arabinose in trypanosomatids are not included. The figure is reproduced from Chap. 6.4 of the first edition of this book... 

The PEP-fructophosphotransferase system does not exist in Spirillum itersoii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa,181,182 or several other genera of aerobic, oxidative bacteria.183 The transport system for D-glucose, D-fructose, and D-mannitol is energy- and temperature-dependent, obeys saturation kinetics, and is inducible.181,182 This indicates the presence of a carrier-mediated transport-system.184 D-Fructose is transported as the free sugar, and trapped intracellularly by phosphorylation, An inducible fructokinase (EC 2.7.1.4) converts transported D-fructose into D-fructose 6-phosphate.181... 

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