JBC, Vol. 250, Issue 18, 7195-7203, Sep, 1975
Evidence for the coordinate control of glycogen synthesis, glucose utilization, and glycolysis in Escherichia coli. II. Quantitative correlation of the inhibition of glycogen synthesis and the stimulation of glucose utilization by 2,4-dinitrophenol with the effects on the cellular levels of glucose 6-phosphate, fructose, 1,6-diphosphate, and total adenylates
D. N. Dietzler, M. P. Leckie, J. L. Magnani, M. J. Sughrue and P. E. Bergstein
In cultures of Escherichia coli W4597(K) and G34 under various nutritional
conditions the rates of glucose utilization and cellular levels of
fructose-1,6-P2 are quantitatively related by the Hill equation where the
value of the Hill coefficient is approximately equal to 2. This is the
first evidence that fructose-P2, or any metabolite which covaries with
fructose-P2, modulates glucose utilization in E. coli. In light of previous
observations from our laboratory this new observation and those in the
succeeding report provide the first evidence that in E. coli glycolsis,
glycogen synthesis and glucose utilization are coordinately regulated, thus
providing for the coupling of ATP utilization and production under various
metabolic circumstances. Alterations in the level of ATP apparently affect
the velocity of phosphofructokinase, the rate-limiting enzyme in glycolsis,
altering the cellular levels of glucose-6-P or fructose-P2. Changes in the
levels of these hexose phosphates are quantitatively related to alterations
in the rates of glucose utilization and glycogen synthesis in the intact E.
coli cell.