SUMMARY: The intra- and extracellular concentrations of a number of phosphorylated intermediary metabolites in Escherichia coli were measured radiochemically during growth in low phosphate (0.75 mM) media containing [32P]Pi. Distribution studies showed that most of the monophosphate metabolites were present in the supernatant medium outside the bacteria. This was much less marked for the di- and triphosphates, and was not due to bacterium lysis. Adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate was present solely in the medium under all conditions tested. 3′,5′-Cyclic-AMP added to the medium was only partly effective in reversing repression of β-galactosidase synthesis by gluconate. This was not due to degradation of the nucleotide.
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