[Characteristics tables for monomer biosynthesis by microorganisms]

The pathways of biosynthesis of amino acids, nucleotides as well as membraneous and cell wall components (target monomers) were analysed in bacteria growing on different carbon sources. The analysis has made it possible to single out "junction" metabolites in the "branching points" of metabolic pathways of monomer synthesis whatever growth substrates are. The authors have compiled stoichiometry tables for the synthesis of all cellular target monomers from "junction" metabolites and for the synthesis of "junction" metabolites from different carbon sources (ethanol, galactose, glycerol, mannitol, glucose, acetate, glutamate and succinate). The tables are referred to as characteristic ones. The paper presents characteristic tables for Escherichia coli.