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myo-Inositol: Biosynthesis and Metabolism

Carbohydrates: Structure and Function, Page: 43-76
1980
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Book Chapter Description

This chapter discusses the biosynthesis and metabolism in myo -inositol. The awareness about the role of myo -inositol in carbohydrate metabolism emerges not only from an appreciation of the biosynthetic origin and metabolic fate of myo -inositol in higher plants, but also from the realization that hitherto unknown or poorly understood biochemical processes may at present be reconsidered in the light of new observations. Virtually, nothing is known concerning the regulation of myo -inositol biosynthesis, myo -Inositol-1-P synthase appears to be the only enzyme involved in myo-inositol biosynthesis, plant or animal. Conversion of myo -inositol-1-P to inositol must be studied more thoroughly as the free inositol pool is a very important nutritional reserve to the newly germinating seed or the germinating pollen grain. In regard to the metabolism of myo -inositol, there is very little information available regarding the fate of myo -inositol as derived from the reserves of phytic acid in the germinating seed. The information gathered suggests that the core substance of phytic acid is every bit as useful to the new plant as the phosphate it sheds.

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