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Transport and Metabolism of 1'-Fluorosucrose, a Sucrose Analog Not Subject to Invertase Hydrolysis ¹

Central Research and Development Department, Experimental Station, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware 19898

The novel sucrose derivative 1'-fluorosucrose (-D-glucopyranosyl-- D-1-deoxy-1-fluorofructofuranoside) was synthesized in order to help define mechanisms of sucrose entry into plant cells. Replacement of the 1'-hydroxyl by fluorine very greatly reduces invertase hydrolysis of the derivative (hydrolysis at 10 millimolar 1'-fluorosucrose is less than 2% that of sucrose) but does not reduce recognition, binding, or transport of 1'-fluorosucrose by a sucrose carrier. Transport characteristics of 1'-fluorosucrose were studied in three different tissues. The derivative is transported by the sucrose carrier in the plasmalemma of developing soybean cotyledon protoplasts with a higher affinity than sucrose (K_m 1'-fluorosucrose 0.9 millimolar, K_m sucrose 2.0 millimolar). 1'-Fluorosucrose is a competitive inhibitor of sucrose uptake with an apparent K_i also of 0.9 millimolar, while the K_i of sucrose competition of 1'-fluorosucrose uptake was 2.0 millimolar. Thus, both sugars are recognized at the same binding site in the plasmalemma. Both sucrose and 1'-fluorosucrose show very similar patterns of phloem translocation from an abraded leaf surface through the petiole indicating that recognition of 1'-fluorosucrose by sucrose carriers involved in phloem loading is likely as well.

1'-Fluorosucrose is a very poor substrate for invertase and as such is absorbed only slowly by corn root segments, a tissue in which sucrose hydrolysis by a cell wall invertase is required prior to active hexose uptake.

The kinetics of 1'-fluorosucrose uptake by soybean cotyledon protoplasts indicate that membrane passage and substrate release to the protoplast interior are rate limiting to transport. Recognition of sucrose at the inner membrane surface of the carrier protein is apparently different than recognition and binding at the external surface.

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