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Arabidopsis uses two gluconeogenic gateways for organic acids to fuel seedling establishment.
Nature communications - 10 Apr 2015
Eastmond Peter J, Astley Holly M, Parsley Kate, Aubry Sylvain, Williams Ben P, Menard Guillaume N, Craddock Christian P, Nunes-Nesi Adriano, Fernie Alisdair R, Hibberd Julian M
Abstract excerpt
Gluconeogenesis is a fundamental metabolic process that allows organisms to make sugars from non-carbohydrate stores such as lipids and protein. In eukaryotes only one gluconeogenic route has been described from organic acid intermediates and this relies on the enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK). Here we show that two routes exist in Arabidopsis, and that the second uses pyruvate, orthophosphate...
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