Vibrios, chitin catabolic pathway

Chauvin et al. 1994 Bouma and Roseman 1996), whereas the disaccharide is taken up unchanged. The further catabolism of (GlcNAc)2 gives A,A -diacetylchitobiose, which can be catabolized by Escherichia coli and is transported/phosphorylated by the phosphoenolpyruvateiglycose phosphotransferase systems (Keyhani et al. 2000b), the major subject to address in-depth in the whole pathway of the chitin degrading mechanism in Vibrios. 

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