Department of Biochemistry, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Englefield Green, Surrey, England.
Planta. 1972 Dec;103(4):310-8. doi: 10.1007/BF00386702.
Extracts of sycamore cambial tissue convert UDP-glucose into UDP-glucuronic acid, and the latter into UDP-xylose and UDP-rhamnose. None of the corresponding galactose series of monosaccharides was formed indicating the absence of epimerases, postulated as an important feature of differentiation. UDP-glucose is formed in greater quantities than any of its nucleoside analogues and it is suggested that UDP-glucose plays a more important role in carbohydrate metabolism in this tissue.
梧桐形成层组织将 UDP-葡萄糖转化为 UDP-葡萄糖醛酸,后者又转化为 UDP-木糖和 UDP-鼠李糖。没有形成相应的半乳糖单糖系列,表明不存在差向异构酶,这被认为是分化的一个重要特征。UDP-葡萄糖的形成量大于任何其核苷类似物,因此,在该组织的碳水化合物代谢中,UDP-葡萄糖可能发挥着更重要的作用。