Mannose metabolism. I

RH Herman - The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1971 - Elsevier
97,000(32). Glucose-6-phosphatase also phate (G-1, 6-P2) or mannose-1, 6-diphosformsM-
6-P and orthophosphate from man- phate (M-1, 6-P2)(38). nose and pyrophosphate(33). M-
6-P serves Bartlett(39-41) has shown that human as a substrate for glucose-6-phosphatase
red blood cells contain an unusually high forming mannose and orthophosphate(34).
concentration of G-1, 6-P2 and Ml, 6-P2. Human erythrocytes phosphorylate mannose
Similar high concentrations were found in using an enzyme indistinguishable from hexo- the …