Abstract
Oxygen uptake by homogenates of lobster hepatopancreas was stimulated by the addition of Embden–Meyerhof, pentose cycle, and citric acid cycle intermediates as well as xylose. Acetate-1-C14oxidation was blocked by fluoracetate and glucose-1-C14oxidation fell by 80% with iodoacetate treatment. TPN and DPN increased glucose-1-C14oxidation by 140% and 20% and acetate-1-C14oxidation by 50% and 100% respectively. Large amounts of C14enter polysaccharide following treatment with glucose-1-C14or acetate-1-C14but very little enters after treatment with the same amount of gluconate-1-C14. Gluconate and xylose oxidation occurs in mitochondria-free preparations. In short-term tests with acetate-1-C14as substrate, most of the label in glycogen is on carbons 3 and 4 and the amount in the other positions can be explained on the basis of a 5–10% participation of the pentose cycle.
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