Glucose intermediate

Figure 6. Change in the rate-determining step in the reaction of fi-glucosidase with p-nitrophenyl-fi-iy-glucoside in 50% dimethyl sulfoxide, pH 7.1. The rate constant ko6s is that for formation of the enzyme-glucose intermediate kcat corresponds to the rate constant for deglucosylation at temperatures below...

Behrens NH, Leloir LF. Dohchol monophosphate glucose intermediate in glucose transfer in hver. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 1970 66 153-159. 

A stable enzyme-D-glucose intermediate has been obtained in the hydrolysis of methyl a-D-[ C]glucopyranoside by an a-D-glucosidase from Saccharomyces oviformis Phenol was used to terminate the reaction and to trap the intermediate in a rapid-flow technique. The intermediate appears to be covalently linked, since continuous washing of the denatured protein failed to remove the radiolabel, which was also retained by a tryptic peptide isolated by gel filtration. Treatment of the intermediate with acid released D-[ C]glucose. The radiolabel was not bound when the enzyme was replaced with bovine albumin or when jS-D-glucosylamine (a potent inhibitor of a-D-glucosidase) was added with the enzyme. 

The 3-C-methylene glycosyl phosphate 64 in which the methylene group is acting as a masked keto group has been prepared in several steps from a 3-C-methylene-D-glucose intermediate and used to prepare a nucleoside diphosphate derivative central to the biosynthesis of di- and tri-deoxysugars. ... 

Sorbitol is a sweetener often substituted for cane sugar because it is better tolerated by dia betics It IS also an intermediate in the commercial synthesis of vitamin C Sorbitol is prepared by high pressure hydrogenation of glucose over a nickel catalyst What is the structure (including stereochemistry) of sorbitoP... 

In spite of the number of different structural types lipids share a common biosyn thetic origin m that they are ultimately derived from glucose During one stage of car bohydrate metabolism called glycolysis glucose is converted to lactic acid Pyruvic acid IS an intermediate... 

Cation (Section 1 2) Positively charged ion Cellobiose (Section 25 14) A disacchande in which two glu cose units are joined by a 3(1 4) linkage Cellobiose is oh tamed by the hydrolysis of cellulose Cellulose (Section 25 15) A polysaccharide in which thou sands of glucose units are joined by 3(1 4) linkages Center of symmetry (Section 7 3) A point in the center of a structure located so that a line drawn from it to any element of the structure when extended an equal distance in the op posite direction encounters an identical element Benzene for example has a center of symmetry Cham reaction (Section 4 17) Reaction mechanism m which a sequence of individual steps repeats itself many times usu ally because a reactive intermediate consumed m one step is regenerated m a subsequent step The halogenation of alkanes is a chain reaction proceeding via free radical intermediates... 

Aminoglycoside Biosynthesis. The biosynthesis of the aminoglycosides has been extensively studied and reviewed (117—119). Perhaps the most interesting aspect is the biosynthesis of 2-deoxystreptamiae (1, R = H), in which the C-1 and C-6 of a D-glucose molecule become the C-1 and C-2 of 2-deoxystreptamiae by way of the intermediate 2-deoxy-j //(9-iaosose. The details of this conversion are stiU unclear. 

The proposed pathway for the biosynthesis of the avermectins (Fig. 3) has been described in a review (23). Some of the details are yet to be elucidated, although the steps, in general, are based on firm evidence from four types of studies incorporation of labeled precursors, conversion of putative intermediates by producing strains and blocked mutants, in vitro measurement of biosynthetic enzymes, and studies with enzyme inhibitors. The biosynthesis of the oleandrose units was elucidated from studies using and labeled glucose, which indicated a direct conversion of glucose to... 

When this isomeiization reaction is catalyzed by alkah, it is termed the Lobry de Bmyn-Alberda van Ekenstein reaction. By it, D-glucose, D-mannose, and D-fmctose can be interconverted. The isomerizations involve a common intermediate, the 1,2-enediol. In the Glu—Man—Fm interconversions... 

Microorganisms exhibit nutritional preferences. The enzymes for common substrates such as glucose are usually constitutive, as are the enzymes for common or essential metabohc pathways. Furthermore, the synthesis of enzymes for attack on less common substrates such as lactose is repressed by the presence of appreciable amounts of common substrates or metabolites. This is logical for cells to consei ve their resources for enzyme synthesis as long as their usual substrates are readily available. If presented with mixed substrates, those that are in the main metabolic pathways are consumed first, while the other substrates are consumed later after the common substrates are depleted. This results in diauxic behavior. A diauxic growth cui ve exhibits an intermediate growth plateau while the enzymes needed for the uncommon substrates are synthesized (see Fig. 24-2). There may also be preferences for the less common substrates such that a mixture shows a sequence of each being exhausted before the start of metabolism of the next. 

Cellulose may be degraded by a number of environments. For example, acid-catalysed hydrolytic degradation will eventually lead to glucose by rupture of the l,4-(3-glucosidic linkages. Intermediate products may also be obtained for which the general term hydrocellulose has been given. 

Pyridone also catalyzes epimerization of the anomeric position of the tetramethyl ether of glucose. The mechanism involves two double proton transfers. The first leads to a ring-opened intermediate, and the second results in ring closure to the isomerized product ... 

Because the configuration at C-2 is lost on enolization, the enediol intermediate can revert either to D-glucose or to D-mannose. Two stereoisomers that have multiple chirality centers but differ in configuration at only one of them are refened to as... 

Phosphate esters of glucose, fructose, and other monosaccharides are important metabolic intermediates, and the ribose moiety of nucleotides such as ATP and GTP is phosphorylated at the 5 -position (Figure 7.13). 

Whereas catabolism is fundamentally an oxidative process, anabolism is, by its contrasting nature, reductive. The biosynthesis of the complex constituents of the cell begins at the level of intermediates derived from the degradative pathways of catabolism or, less commonly, biosynthesis begins with oxidized substances available in the inanimate environment, such as carbon dioxide. When the hydrocarbon chains of fatty acids are assembled from acetyl-CoA units, activated hydrogens are needed to reduce the carbonyl (C=0) carbon of acetyl-CoA into a —CHg— at every other position along the chain. When glucose is... 

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