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Metabolism and Enzymology

Carbohydrate and Amino Acid Metabolism in the Ectomycorrhizal Ascomycete Sphaerosporella brunnea during Glucose Utilization ¹

A ¹³C NMR Study

Laboratoire de Microbiologie Forestière, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Recherches Forestières de Nancy, Champenoux, 54280 Seichamps, France, Institute of Physiological Botany, Uppsala University, Box 540, S-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden, Laboratoire de Méthodologie RMN, U.A. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique No. 406, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Nancy I, BP 249, 54506 Vandoeuvre-Nancy, France

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was utilized to study the metabolism of [1-¹³C]glucose in mycelia of the ectomycorrhizal ascomycete Sphaerosporella brunnea. The main purpose was to assess the biochemical pathways for the assimilation of glucose and to identify the compounds accumulated during glucose assimilation. The majority of the ¹³C label was incorporated into mannitol, while glycogen, trehalose and free amino acids were labeled to a much lesser extent. The high enrichment of the C1/C6 position of mannitol indicated that the polyol was formed via a direct route from absorbed glucose. Randomization of the ¹³C label was observed to occur in glucose and trehalose leading to the accumulation of [1,6-¹³C]trehalose and [1,6-¹³C]glucose. This suggests that the majority of the glucose carbon used to form trehalose was cycled through the metabolically active mannitol pool. The proportion of label entering the free amino acids represented 38% of the soluble ¹³C after 6 hours of continuous glucose labeling. Therefore, amino acid biosynthesis is an important sink of assimilated carbon. Carbon-13 was incorporated into [3-¹³C]alanine and [2-¹³C]-, [3-¹³C]-, and [4-¹³C]glutamate and glutamine. From the analysis of the intramolecular ¹³C enrichment of these amino acids, it is concluded that [3-¹³C]pyruvate, arising from [1-¹³C]glucose catabolism, was used by alanine aminotransferase, pyruvate dehydrogenase, and pyruvate carboxylase (or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase). Intramolecular ¹³C labeling patterns of glutamate and glutamine were similar and are consistent with the operation of the Krebs cycle. There is strong evidence for (a) randomization of the label on C2 and C3 positions of oxaloacetate via malate dehydrogenase and fumarase, and (b) the dual biosynthetic and respiratory role of the citrate synthase, aconitase, and isocitrate dehydrogenase reactions. The high flux of carbon through the carboxylation (presumably pyruvate carboxylase) step indicates that CO₂ fixation is an important component of the carbon metabolism in S. brunnea, and it is likely that this anaplerotic role is particularly prevalent during NH₄⁺ assimilation. The most relevant information resulting from this investigation is (a) the occurrence of the mannitol cycle, (b) a large part of the trehalose pool is synthesized after the cycling of glucose-carbon through the mannitol cycle, and (c) pyruvate (or phosphoenolpyruvate) carboxylation plays an important role in the primary metabolism of glucose-fed mycelia.

¹ Supported by grants from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (to F. M.) and from the Swedish Agricultural Science Research Council and Carl Trygger Foundation (K. S.).

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