SEQUENCE OF THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI K-12 EDD AND EDA GENES OF THE ENTNER-DOUDOROFF PATHWAY

A 3.5-kb DNA fragment from the Clarke and Carbon Escherichia coli geno mic clone, PLC37-44, was sequenced on both strands. Part of the zwf ge ne, encoding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and all of the edd and eda genes, encoding 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase and 2-keto-3-deoxy -6-phosphogluconate aldolase, respectively, of the Entner-Doudoroff pa thway, were identified. These data are compared with those of Egan et al. [J. Bacteriol. 174 (1992) 4638-4646] and important differences wer e noted.