Figure 1

A hierarchy of sugar gene expression matches the hierarchy in growth rate. Promoter activity for six different sugar utilization operons at mid exponential growth, in the presence of the cognate sugar alone or paired with each of the 5 other sugars. All sugars are at saturating concentrations (0.2%). Rows represent the promoter activity from the indicated reporter grown in the presence of its cognate sugar. Rows are ordered according to growth rate, with a sugar supporting higher growth as sole carbon source rate located in an upper row. Columns represent the second sugar in the mixture. The diagonal represents the presence of only the cognate sugar (0.2%); promoter activity values in each row were normalized to this value.