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Origin of sucrose metabolism in higher plants: when, how and why?

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Salerno, G·2003·Trends in Plant Science

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Since the discovery of sucrose biosynthesis, considerable advances have been made in understanding its regulation and crucial role in the functional biology of plants. However, important aspects of this metabolism are still an enigma. Studies in cyanobacteria and the publication of the sequences of several complete genomes have recently significantly increased our knowledge of the structures of proteins involved in sucrose metabolism and given us new insights into their origin and further evolution.

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  • Sucrose synthase seems to be present only in filamentous N2-fixing cyanobacteria, where it is involved in the accumulation of storage and structural polysaccharides.

    “This enzyme seems to be present only in filamentous N2-fixing cyanobacteria (Curatti et al. 2000; Salerno and Curatti 2003) where it is involved in the accumulation of storage (glycogen and sucrose) and structural (such as cellulose, see below) polysaccharides (Curatti et al. 2008).”

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  1. Avigad, G. and Dey, P.M. (1997) Carbohydrate metabolism: storage carbohydrate. In Plant Biochemistry (Dey, P.M. and Harborne, J.B., eds) pp. 143 -204, Academic Press, London
  2. Edelman, J. (1971) The role of sucrose in green plants. In Sugar (Yudkin, J. et al., eds), pp. 95 -102, Butterworths

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Salerno, G.
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Salerno, G
Venue
Trends in Plant Science
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-02
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
63-69
ISSN
1360-1385 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1990805321
Cited by
202
References
40
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Trends in Plant Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • CONICET Digital (CONICET) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
Keywords
sucrose metabolism, sucrose synthesis, higher plants, evolutionary origin, cyanobacteria, protein evolution, sucrose transporters, sucrose synthase, sucrose phosphate synthase
MeSH terms
Cyanobacteria, Phylogeny, Plant Proteins, Plants, Sucrose, Molecular Structure, Evolution, Molecular

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