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Abstract

C NMR was used to study the pattern of label incorporation from [2-C]acetate into trehalose during sporulation in A wild-type strain and a strain homozygous for the mutation (which affects glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) were used. In the wild-type it was possible to deduce the cycling of glucose 6-phosphate around the hexose monophosphate pathway whilst in the mutant strain this did not occur. The requirement of the hexose monophosphate pathway for providing NADPH for fatty acid biosynthesis was examined using C NMR and GC/MS. The wild-type strain produced a typical profile of fatty acids with palmitoleic acid being the most abundant whereas the mutant contained only one-quarter the amount of total fatty acid. As homozygous diploids are able to sporulate this indicates that the large amount of fatty acid biosynthesis observed in sporulation of wild-type strains is not essential to the process.

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