Espinet C, Bartrons R, Carreras J
Department of Ciéncies Fisiològiques, Humanes i de la Nutrició, Facultat de Medicina, Univesitat de Barcelona, Spain.
FEBS Lett. 1989 Nov 20;258(1):143-6. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(89)81635-7.
Adenosine can be metabolized by chicken erythrocytes as a carbon source maintaining ATP levels. In addition, it stimulates glucose uptake and lactate production. Adenosine effects do not involve binding to membrane receptors. They are dependent on the provision of a carbon source to glycolysis and correlate with the increase of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate levels that activating phosphofructokinase would increase the glycolytic flux.