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Science 27 May 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3726, pp. 1270 - 1271
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3726.1270
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Mutarotase in Higher Plants: Distribution and Properties

J. Martyn Bailey 1, Peter H. Fishman 1, and P. G. Pentchev 1

1 Department of Biocheinistry, George Washington Medical School, Washington, D.C.

The enzyme mutarotase from mammalian tissues catalyzes interconversion of anomeric forms of glucose and structurally related sugars; it may be involved in transport of sugars. Isolation and species distribution of a similar enzyme in higher plants are described. The enzyme from green pepper (Capsicum frutescens) was purified 230-fold. It differs from the mammalian enzyme in both substrate specificity and lack of inhibition by 1-deoxyglucose and phloridzin.


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