Fig. 5: Predicted l-fucose/d-arabinose metabolic pathway. | Communications Biology

Fig. 5: Predicted l-fucose/d-arabinose metabolic pathway.

From: The gastrointestinal pathogen Campylobacter jejuni metabolizes sugars with potential help from commensal Bacteroides vulgatus

Fig. 5

Model was developed based on homology to other characterized enzymes. The activity of FucX has been experimentally verified as has the production of l-fuconic acid. Inner molecules trace the products formed by l-fucose catabolism and outer molecules are from d-arabinose catabolism. The letters underneath each enzyme name denote the mutant growth phenotype (G = mutant has a growth enhancement on l-fucose and d-arabinose, N = no growth enhancement as determined either in the present or previous25 study).

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