Phosphate hexose

Alcohol to acetic acid Aldehydes to alcohols (e.g., acetaldehyde to ethyl alcohol) Starch to glucose Hexose phosphate from hexose and phosphoric acid... 

Hexose 6-phosphate, 3-deoxy-D-nho Hexose 6-phosphate, S-deoxy-D-xylo-Hexose, phosphate esters of... 

The hexose phosphate, fructose-1,6-diphosphate, is split by aldolase into two triose phosphates glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Aldolase consists of four 40-kDa subunits. Three tissue-specific forms exist in human tissues aldolase A (ubiquitous and very active in the muscle), aldolase B (liver, kidney, and small intestine), and aldolase C (specific to the brain). These three isozymes have nearly the same molecular size but differ in substrate specificity,... 

Fig. 3.—The Interconversion of Hexose Phosphates by Yeast and Liver Enzymes.

The above transketolase and transaldolase reactions were found inadequate to explain the metabolism of D-ribose 5-phosphate, because of the non-accumulation of tetrose phosphate, the 75 % yield of hexose phosphate, and the results of experiments with C14 (the distribution of which differed markedly from the values predicted for such a sequence). 24(b) Thus, with D-ribose-l-C14, using rat-liver enzymes, any hexose formed should have equal radioactivity at Cl and C3, whereas, actually, 74% appeared at Cl. Furthermore, D-ribose-2,3-Cl42 should have given material having equal labels at C2 and C4 in the resultant hexose, whereas, in fact, it had 50% of the activity at C4, C3 was nearly as active as C2, and Cl had little activity. Similar results were obtained with pea-leaf and -root preparations.24 The following reactions, for which there is enzymic evidence,170(b) were proposed, in addition to those involving D-aftro-heptulose, to account for these results.24(b) (o) 200... 

D-lAreo-Pentulose 5-phosphate + D-erythrose 4-phosphate tran>lcetolaM, D-fructose 6-phosphate + D-glycerose 3-phosphate 2 Triose phosphate —> hexose phosphate + inorganic phosphate... 

So much for the theory, in practice this approach led to a significant reduction in the starch yield rather than the expected increase.25 Measurements of the intermediates revealed that at the first approximation the approach was working as intended there was in excess of a 90% reduction in the sucrose content, while the hexose phosphate levels increased by a factor of 7. However, detailed measurements of both starch levels in developing tubers and density measurements on tubers following large scale greenhouse trials confirmed that there was in fact a 30% reduction in the yield of starch. 

Figure 14. Principle for measuring bidirectional fluxes by 13C metabolic flux analysis. In a carbon labeling experiment, 1 13C glucose is provided in the medium, and the culture is grown until a steady state is reached. Glucose can either go directly via the hexose phosphate pool (Glu 6P and Fru 6P) into starch, resulting in labeling hexose units of starch only at the Cj position, or it can be cleaved to triose phosphates (DHAP and GAP), from which hexose phosphates can be resynthesized, which will result in 50% labeling at both the Ci and the C6 position (assuming equilibration of label by scrambling at the level of triose phosphates). From the label in the hexose units of starch, the steady state fluxes at the hexose phosphate branchpoint can be calculated for example, if we observe 75% label at the Ci and 25% at the C6 position, the ratio of vs to V7 must have been 1 to 1. All other fluxes can be derived if two of the fluxes of Vi, V6, and V7 are known (e.g., V2 vi V3 V5 + v6).

A. R. Fernie, A. Roscher, R. G. Ratcliffe, and N. J. Kruger, Fructose 2,6 bisphosphate activates pyrophosphate fructose 6 phosphate 1 phosphotransferase and increases triose phosphate to hexose phosphate cycling in heterotrophic cells. Planta 212, 250 263 (2001). 

The oxidative segment of the PPP converts glucose 6-phosphate to ribulose 5-phosphate. One CO2 and two NADPH+H" are formed in the process. Depending on the metabolic state, the much more complex regenerative part of the pathway (see B) can convert some of the pentose phosphates back to hexose phosphates, or it can pass them on to glycolysis for breakdown. In most cells, less than 10% of glucose 6-phosphate is degraded via the pentose phosphate pathway. 

The reactions in the regenerative segment of the PPP are freely reversible. It is therefore easily possible to use the regenerative part of the pathway to convert hexose phosphates into pentose phosphates. This can occur when there is a high demand for pentose phosphates—e.g., during DNA replication in the S phase of the cell cycle (see p. 394). 

This enzyme [EC 2.7.1.61] catalyzes the reaction of an acyl phosphate with a hexose to produce an acid and hexose phosphate. If the sugar is D-glucose or D-man-nose, phosphorylation is on 06. If the sugar is D-fructose, phosphorylation is on 01 or 06. 

This enzyme [EC 3.1.3.9] catalyzes the hydrolysis of o-glucose 6-phosphate to yield o-glucose and orthophosphate. Some glucose phosphatases also catalyze transphosphorylation reactions from carbamoyl phosphate, hexose phosphates, pyrophosphate, phosphoenolpyru-vate and nucleoside di- and triphosphates, using D-glu-cose, D-mannose, 3-methyl-D-glucose, or 2-deoxy-D-glu-cose as phosphoryl acceptors. See Isotope Exchange (Reactions Away from Equilibrium)... 

It had been known from at least the time of Pasteur that the presence of sodium or potassium phosphate aided the progress of a yeast fermentation. Later intensive study showed that a complex group of enzymes (phosphatases and phosphorylases) was responsible for the phosphorylation, dephosphorylation and interconversion of D-glucose 6-phosphate, D-fructose 6-phosphate, D-fructose 1,6-diphosphate and similar substances in various types of cells and muscle tissue. Detailed reviews of the field are available. - A further advance was made in 1936, when Cori and Cori noted that in certain circumstances well-washed frog muscle immersed in a sodium phosphate buffer utilized the inorganic phosphate to produce a new hexose phosphate (the Cori ester). This compound was later shown to be a-D-glucopyranose-l-phosphate and yielded crystalline dipotassium and brucine salts. The Cori ester arose because... 

FIGURE 14-22 Nonoxidative reactions of the pentose phosphate pathway, (a) These reactions convert pentose phosphates to hexose phosphates, allowing the oxidative reactions (see Fig. 14-21) to continue. The enzymes transketolase and transaldolase are specific to this pathway the other enzymes also serve in the glycolytic or gluconeogenic pathways, (b) A schematic diagram showing the pathway... 

In the second phase, transaldolase (with TPP as cofactor) and transketolase catalyze the interconversion of three-, four-, five-, six-, and seven-carbon sugars, with the reversible conversion of six pentose phosphates to five hexose phosphates. In the carbon-assimilating reactions of photosynthesis, the same enzymes catalyze the reverse process, called the reductive pentose phosphate pathway conversion of five hexose phosphates to six pentose phosphates. 

Carbohydrate metabolism in a typical plant cell is more complex in several ways than that in a typical animal cell. The plant cell carries out the same processes that generate energy in animal cells (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation) it can generate hexoses from three- or four-carbon compounds by glu-coneogenesis it can oxidize hexose phosphates to pentose phosphates with the generation of NADPH (the ox-... 

Although we have described metabolic transformations in plant cells in terms of individual pathways, these pathways interconnect so completely that we should instead consider pools of metabolic intermediates shared among these pathways and connected by readily reversible reactions (Fig. 20-37). One such metabolite pool includes the hexose phosphates glucose 1-phosphate, glucose 6-phosphate, and fructose 6-phosphate a second includes the 5-phosphates of the pentoses ri-bose, ribulose, and xylulose a third includes the triose phosphates dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glycer-aldehyde 3-phosphate. Metabolite fluxes through these... 

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