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. 1986 Oct;82(2):363–368. doi: 10.1104/pp.82.2.363

Carbon Assimilation in Carrot Cells in Liquid Culture 1

Jan Kanabus 1,2, Ray A Bressan 1,2, Nicholas C Carpita 1,2
PMCID: PMC1056123  PMID: 16665036

Abstract

Assimilation of carbohydrates by carrot (Daucus carota L. cv Danvers) cells in liquid culture was studied to delineate the major metabolic pathways used in transformation of external carbohydrates to UDP-glucose. The cells grown on either sucrose or glucose for several years proved equally capable of utilizing each of these sugars. Sucrose was rapidly hydrolyzed extracellularly to glucose and fructose, and glucose was preferentially taken up. Uptake of fructose was slower and delayed until glucose was nearly depleted from the medium. Concentrations of cellular sugars, mainly glucose and sucrose, increased during late logarithmic phase of growth and decreased during the plateau phase. Continuous labeling of the cells with d-[14C]glucose resulted in rapid accumulation of radioactivity in glucose-6-phosphate and UDP-glucose. Because there was virtually no uptake of sucrose, UDP-glucose was likely derived from glucose-1-phosphate in a reaction catalyzed by UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and not directly from sucrose. Concentrations of major nucleotides and nucleotide sugars were maximal during the early logarithmic phase of growth and decreased several-fold in the stationary phase. A modified `energy charge' for adenylates calculated with the omission of AMP decreased steadily from 0.9 to 0.8 during the course of culture cycle. An analogous uracil nucleotide ratio was considerably lower (0.85) during early culture, decreased to about 0.7 for the entire logarithmic phase, and returned to initial values as cells entered stationary phase. The uracil nucleotide ratio may provide a useful index to assess the coupling between the energy available in phosphoanhydride bond in adenine nucleotides and the demand for sugar for polysaccharide synthesis through uridine diphosphate-sugar pools.

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