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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Feb 1995, 430-433, Vol 61, No. 2
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Diauxic Growth of Azotobacter vinelandii on Galactose and Glucose: Regulation of Glucose Transport by Another Hexose

TY Wong, H Pei, K Bancroft and GW Childers
Division of Molecular Sciences and Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152, and Department of Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70401

The growth curve of Azotobacter vinelandii was biphasic when the organism was grown in a medium containing a mixture of galactose and glucose. Galactose was the primary carbon source; glucose was also consumed, but the rate at which it was consumed was lower than the rate at which galactose was consumed during the first phase of growth. Metabolic pathways for both sugars were induced. Cell cultures exhibited a second lag period as galactose was depleted. The length of this lag phase varied from 2 to 10 h depending on the pregrowth history of the cells. The second log growth phase occurred at the expense of the remaining glucose in the medium and was accompanied by induction of the high-maximum rate of metabolism glucose-induced glucose permease and increases in the levels of glucose metabolic enzymes. The second lag phase of diauxie may have been due to the time required for induction of the glucose-induced glucose permease.