The Sucrose Analog Palatinose Leads to a Stimulation of Sucrose Degradation and Starch Synthesis when Supplied to Discs of Growing Potato Tubers

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Journal Plant Physiol

Specialty Physiology

Date 2001 Apr 12

PMID 11299376

Citations 33

Authors

A R Fernie

U Roessner

P Geigenberger

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Abstract

In the present paper we investigated the effect of the sucrose (Suc) analog palatinose on potato (Solanum tuberosum) tuber metabolism. In freshly cut discs of growing potato tubers, addition of 5 mM palatinose altered the metabolism of exogenously supplied [U-14C]Suc. There was slight inhibition of the rate of 14C-Suc uptake, a 1.5-fold increase in the rate at which 14C-Suc was subsequently metabolized, and a shift in the allocation of the metabolized label in favor of starch synthesis. The sum result of these changes was a 2-fold increase in the absolute rate of starch synthesis. The increased rate of starch synthesis was accompanied by a 3-fold increase in inorganic pyrophosphate, a 2-fold increase in UDP, decreased UTP/UDP, ATP/ADP, and ATP/AMP ratios, and decreased adenylate energy charge, whereas glycolytic and Krebs cycle intermediates were unchanged. In addition, feeding palatinose to potato discs also stimulated the metabolism of exogenous 14C-glucose in favor of starch synthesis. In vitro studies revealed that palatinose is not metabolized by Suc synthases or invertases within potato tuber extracts. Enzyme kinetics revealed different effects of palatinose on Suc synthase and invertase activities, implicating palatinose as an allosteric effector leading to an inhibition of Suc synthase and (surprisingly) to an activation of invertase in vitro. However, measurement of tissue palatinose levels revealed that these were too low to have significant effects on Suc degrading activities in vivo. These results suggest that supplying palatinose to potato tubers represents a novel way to increase starch synthesis.

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