Major peptidoglycan transglycosylase activity in Streptococcus pneumoniae that is not a penicillin-binding protein

Abstract In this communication, results support the conclusion that succinate can repress hexose-catabolizing enzymes in Rhizobium sp. 32H1 in a manner similar to catabolite repression, such as that seen in Pseudomonas aeruginosa [9,27]. Enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas and Entner-Doudoroff pathways were only detected in cells cultured on hexoses and were not present in succinate-grown cells. Initial enzymes of fructose and mannitol metabolism were present in cells gorwn on fructose and mannitol, respectively. NADP-linked 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase was not detected in cell-free extracts regardless of the carbon source.