title: Aerobic glucose metabolism in the digestive gland of Littorina saxatilis rudis (Maton) and in the daughter sporocysts of Microphallus similis (Jäg.).
abstract: Experiments, some in vitro and some in vivo, with glucose-U-14C, acetate-U-14C, succinate-1,4-14C, pyruvate-U-14C and citrate-1,5-14C indicate that the digestive gland of Littorina saxatilis rudis and the daughter sporocysts of Microphallus similis aerobically catabolise glucose via an EMP pathway, a TCA cycle, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylation and malate decarboxylation. The host and parasite have similar transamination and synthetic reactions and alanine as a major carbohydrate excretory product. Oxidative metabolism appears to be less efficient in the parasite than in the host.
mesh_terms: D000085:Acetates / Q000378:metabolism; D000332:Aerobiosis; D000409:Alanine / Q000096:biosynthesis; D000818:Animals; D002951:Citrates / Q000378:metabolism; D004064:Digestive System / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000469:parasitology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D008974:Mollusca / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000469:parasitology; D011773:Pyruvates / Q000378:metabolism; D013386:Succinates / Q000378:metabolism; D014200:Trematoda / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000085:Acetates; D002951:Citrates; D011773:Pyruvates; D013386:Succinates; D005947:Glucose; D000409:Alanine