The biosynthesis of trehalose in the locust fat body

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Abstract
An extract prepared from the fat body of Schistocerca gregaria catalyses the formation of trehalose from glucose in the presence of adenosine triphosphate and uridine diphosphate glucose. Glucose 6-phosphate and trehalose phosphate were indicated as inter-mediates in this reaction. The extract hydrolyses trehalose phosphate at a greater rate than any other sugar phosphate tested. The presence was shown of phosphoglucomutase, nucleoside diphosphate-kinase and uridine diphosphoglucose-pyrophosphorylase activities in the fat body. A scheme for the biosynthesis of trehalose from glucose in the fat body of Schistocerca is presented.