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THE UDP-glucose : D-fructose 2-glucosyltransferase (sucrose synthetase) is considered to be responsible for much of the synthesis of sucrose in plants1. Recently the important role of this enzyme in the degradation of sucrose in plant storage tissues was pointed out2. Other nucleotides, notably ADP, can also serve as glucosyl acceptors in this system3,4. Furthermore, tracer experiments with carbon-14 have shown that ADP-glucose formation from sucrose and ADP is a channel for the transfer of glucose from sucrose to starch4,5, and that TDP-glucose is a substrate for sucrose synthesis in a crude enzyme preparation obtained from wheat endosperm3.
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MILNER, Y., AVIGAD, G. Thymidine Diphosphate Nucleotides as Substrates in the Sucrose Synthetase Reaction. Nature 206, 825 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206825a0
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