UDP-glucose biosynthesis

Dai N, Petreikov M, Portnoy V, Katzir N, Pharr DM, Schaffer AA. Cloning and expression analysis of a UDP-galactose/glucose pyrophosphorylase from melon fruit provides evidence for the major metabolic pathway of galactose metabolism in raffinose oligosaccharide metabolizing plants. Plant Physiol. 2006 Sep;142(1):294–304. PMID: 16829585; PMCID: PMC1557607.; Kamogawa A, Kurahashi K. Purification and properties of uridinediphosphate glucose pyrophosphorylase from Escherichia coli K12. J Biochem. 1965 Jun;57(6):758–65. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a128142. PMID: 4284510.

Metabolites

D-Glucose 6-phosphate

Formula: C6H13O9P (260.0297178)

CAS ID: 56-73-5

Diphosphate

Formula: H4P2O7 (177.9432294)

CAS ID: 2466-09-3

H+

Formula: H (1.0078246)

CAS ID: 12408-02-5

UDP-alpha-D-glucose(2-)

Formula: C15H22N2O17P2 (564.0393702)

CAS ID:



Enzyme

EC Number name full name note
2.7.7.23 UDP-N-acetylglucosamine diphosphorylase UTP:N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosamine-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
2.7.7.64 UTP-monosaccharide-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
2.7.7.83 UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine diphosphorylase UTP:N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
2.7.7.9 UTP-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase UTP:alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
5.4.2.2 phosphoglucomutase (alpha-D-glucose-1,6-bisphosphate-dependent) alpha-D-glucose 1,6-phosphomutase


Proteins

Protein ID name full name