%0 Journal Article %A Delidakis, C. E. %A Jones-Mortimer, M. C. %A Kornberg, H. L. %T A Mutant Inducible for Galactitol Utilization in Escherichia coli K12 %D 1982 %J Microbiology, %V 128 %N 3 %P 601-604 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-128-3-601 %I Microbiology Society, %X Galactitol-positive strains of Escherichia coli K12 are inhibited by the galactitol analogues l-fucitol and 2-deoxy-d-galactitol, but not by d-fucitol; Salmonella typhimurium LT2 is not inhibited by these compounds. Most mutants selected as resistant to either toxic compound are unable to utilize galactitol as carbon source, but a relatively rare class is inducible for the Enzyme II of the galactitol: phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system, the product of which is d-galactitol 6-phosphate. The lesion in one such mutant maps near metG at about min 45 on the E. coli genome. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-128-3-601