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First, the extent to which mannose and 3- O -methylglucose are metabolized by hexokinases and other enzymes has yet to be determined for Arabidopsis.
Proteins postulated to act in control of at least some sugar-regulated processes include hexokinases [ 31 32 33 34 ] and SNF1-related protein kinases [ 35 36 ] . Hexokinases have been suggested to play a role in sugar repression of alpha-amylase activity.
3- O -methylglucose is a glucose analog that, in at least some organisms, is transported by hexose transporters [ 61 62 63 64 ] but is phosphorylated very inefficiently, if at all, by hexokinases [ 62 ] . Seedlings grown on media containing 3- O -methylglucose have 20:1 levels that are similar to the 20:1 levels of plants grown on approximately equi-molar concentrations of sorbitol, but that are much lower than the 20:1 levels of plants grown on equi-molar concentrations of glucose (Figure 2).
This hypothesis is based on findings that only those glucose analogs that are believed to be substrates for phosphorylation by hexokinases are effective in repressing alpha-amylase expression [ 37 ] . However, the role of hexokinases in sugar responses remains under debate [ 38 39 40 ] .
In many organisms, mannose has been shown to be a substrate for hexokinases whereas 3- O -methylglucose is metabolized poorly, if at all, by hexokinases [ 62 65 ] . As a result, processes that are affected by mannose but not by 3- O -methylglucose have been postulated to be regulated via a hexokinase-mediated pathway(s) [ 19 31 32 ] . By this logic, the fact that seed storage lipid breakdown is repressed by the presence of mannose but not by 3- O -methylglucose could also be interpreted to mean that inhibition of seed storage lipid breakdown occurs via a hexokinase-mediated pathway.
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