Biosynthesis of Glycosides
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The glycosides are the condensation products of sugar and the acceptor unit called as aglycone. The reaction occurs in two parts as given below. Firstly sugar phosphates bind with uridine triphosphate (UTP) to produce sugar—uridine diphosphate sugar complex. This sugar nucleotide complex reacts with acceptor units in the second reaction which leads to glycoside production.
BIOSYNTHESIS OF GLYCOSIDES
The glycosides are the condensation products of sugar and
the acceptor unit called as aglycone. The reaction occurs in two parts as given
below. Firstly sugar phosphates bind with uridine triphosphate (UTP) to produce
sugar—uridine diphosphate sugar complex. This sugar nucleotide complex reacts
with acceptor units in the second reaction which leads to glycoside production.
Once such glycosides are formed, other specific enzymes may
transfer another sugar unit in the later reactions in which the glycoside
formed in the previous reaction work as an acceptor to provide di-, tri-, or
tetraglycosides and so on by subsequent reactions.
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