Allosteric regulation of the partitioning of glucose-1-phosphate between glycogen and trehalose biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

•Nucleotide-glucose synthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis was analyzed.•The characterization of four enzymes involved in glucose-1P partitioning is reported.•Mycobacterial ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is allosterically regulated.•Trehalose-6P synthase exhibits higher catalytic efficiency for ADP-...

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Main Authors: Asención Diez, Matías D., Demonte, Ana M., Syson, Karl, Arias, Diego G., Gorelik, Andrii, Guerrero, Sergio A., Bornemann, Stephen, Iglesias, Alberto A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Pub. Co 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331664/