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glycogen in procaryotes...

Jim Hu jimhu at tamu.edu
Thu Apr 13 20:42:57 EST 2000



"Roland Hübner" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>  do (some) procaryotes accumulate  glycogen (overpression-driven)?
>
> Thanks for reply.
>   Roland

Yes, prokaryotes accumulate glycogen.  I don't know about
overexpression-driven.
For example, see:


Yang H, Liu MY, Romeo T.
Coordinate genetic regulation of glycogen catabolism and biosynthesis in
Escherichia coli via the CsrA gene product.
J Bacteriol. 1996 Feb;178(4):1012-7.
PMID: 8576033; UI: 96165254





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