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Regulation of Carbon Metabolism in Mycelial Fungi

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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Carbon catabolite repression refers to the mechanism whereby repressing carbon sources are used preferentially to less readily metabolized carbon sources due to reduced synthesis of the latter in the presence of the former. The best-studied case of carbon catabolite repression, at the genetical, biochemical, and molecular level, is that of the lactose operon in Escherichia coli, where there is a sophisticated understanding of the molecular mechanism, and of interactions with the pathwayspecific induction mechanism for several operons, in particular that for lactose utilization (Busy 1986). However, there is neither reason a priori, or evidence a posteriori to suggest that the mechanism should be conserved between prolaryotes and eukaryotes. In eukaryotes, worked aimed at eliciting the been undertaken mainly in the yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae and in some mycelia fungi. In yeast a large number of genes have been implicated in the repression mechanism.

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Felenbok, B., Kelly, J.M. (1996). Regulation of Carbon Metabolism in Mycelial Fungi. In: Brambl, R., Marzluf, G.A. (eds) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The Mycota, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10367-8_17

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