Uptake of Sugars by Tobacco Callus Tissue |
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Authors: | Miroslava Opekaeová A Kotyk |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratory for Cell Membrane Transport, Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Budějovická 1083, 142 20, Praha 4-Kr?, Czechoslovakia
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Abstract: | D-Glucose and several other sugars are taken up by slices of callus tissue ofNicotiana tabacum and are both oxidized to CO2 and incorporated into tissue components. The uptake as well as the subsequent metabolism are slow, the transport process being characterized by lack of specificity, no hyperbolic saturation, no influence of metabolic or transport inhibitors and hardly any dependence on pH. The apparent activation energy of the process was about 42 kJ mol-1. It appears that the transport proceeds by simple diffusion through narrow intercellular spaces and possibly hydrophilic pores and that only about 10% of the tissue volume is accessible to the sugars in question. |
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