Abstract
In 1945, Mann showed fructose to be the principal sugar in semen. For over
half a century the means by which fructose is metabolized by sperm has been
assumed to be by an initial phosphorylation catalysed by hexokinase, but this
has never been substantiated. In the present study, by comparing the
metabolism of glucose and fructose by both whole boar sperm and hypotonically
treated cells, it is confirmed that fructose is phosphorylated by hexokinase
to produce fructose 6-phosphate.
Subject
Developmental Biology,Endocrinology,Genetics,Molecular Biology,Animal Science and Zoology,Reproductive Medicine,Biotechnology
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