Figure 7

Proposed pathways for oligosaccharide uptake and catabolism into monosaccharides for entry into the bifid shunt. Transporters are colored as in Figure 6 and all genes are given by their locus tag. The schematic pathways for glucose (entering as glucose-1P), galactose, fructose (entering as fructose-6P) and xylose are shown with the main steps of the bifid shunt. All constitutive highly expressed genes (Figure 1) are denoted with an asterisk (*).