Food Biochemistry and Food Processing (2 edition)

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27 Biochemistry of Fruits 541

Glucose Glucose-6-phosphate

Dihydroxyacetone phosphate

Fructose-6-phosphate

Phosphofructokinase

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate

1,3-Diphosphoglycerate

Glycerate-3-phosphate kinase

3-Phosphoglycerate 2-Phosphoglycerate

Phosphoenol pyruvate

Pyruvate dehydrogenase

Pyruvate

Acetyl CoA

Anaerobic metabolism

Breakdown of sugars: Glycolysis/citric acid cycle

Citric acid cycle

CO 2

CO 2

CO 2

Phosphoglycerate mutase

Ethanol
Alcohol
dehydrogenase

Pyruvate
decarboxylase

Citrate synthase Citrate Aconitase

Isocitrate

Isocitrate
dehydrogenase

Malate
dehydrogenase

Oxaloacetate

Malate

Fumarase

Fumarate

Succinate
dehydrogenase Succinate

Coash Succinate thiokinase

Succinyl CoA

COA-SH

α-Ketoglutarate

Acetaldehyde

Enolase

Aldolase

Triose phosphate
isomerase

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate
dehydrogenase

Hexokinase

Hexosephosphate isomerase
AT P

AT P

AT P

AT P

ADP

ADP

NAD

NAD

NAD

NAD

NAD

NAD

FAD

FADH 2

NADH

NADH

NADH

NADH

NADH
ATP ADP

NADH

ADP

ADP

Figure 27.3.Catabolism of sugars through glycolytic pathway and citric acid cycle.

alteration of PFK, which increases the efficiency of utilisation
of fructose-6-phosphate, is another means of regulation that can
activate the carbon flow through the glycolytic pathway.
Other enzymes of the glycolytic pathway are involved in
the regulation of starch/sucrose biosynthesis (Figs. 27.2 and
27.3). Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate is converted back to fructose-
6-phosphate by the enzyme fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, also
releasing inorganic phosphate. This enzyme is localised in
the cytosol and chloroplast. Fructose-6-phosphate is converted

to fructose-2,6-bisphosphate by fructose-6-phosphate 2-kinase
which can be dephosphorylated at the 2 position by fructose-
2,6-bisphosphatase. Fructose-6-phosphate is an intermediary in
sucrose biosynthesis (Fig. 27.2). SPS is regulated by reversible
phosphorylation (a form of post-translational modification that
involves addition of a phosphate moiety from ATP to an OH-
amino acid residue in the protein, such as serine or threonine, me-
diated by a kinase, and dephosphorylation mediated by a phos-
phatase) by SPS kinase and SPS phosphatase. Phosphorylation
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