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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