Enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism in nectaries

Abstract

The activity of some important enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism was investigated in several fractions of homogenized tissues of nectaries from Deutzia scabra and Convolvulus sepium in the secretion-phase. Considerable activity was found for the particle-associated hexokinase and the soluble fructokinase, phosphohexoseisomerase, sucrase, UTP-glucose-1-phosphate-uridyltransferase, acid and alkaline phosphatases, and pyrophosphatase. The activity of phosphoglucomutase was smaller, and that of starch-hydrolases and-phosphorylases and of sucrose-synthetase was very weak. The meaning of these results in relation to the metabolism and the secretion of carbohydrates in nectaries is discussed.