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IT is possible to obtain evidence for the synthetic pathway of a monosaccharide by determining its isotopic labelling in a suitable polysaccharide which has been produced from a labelled substrate. Experiments were undertaken to determine the synthetic pathway of fucose using a fucose-containing extracellular bacterial polysaccharide which was produced from labelled glucose and methionine as the sole carbon and energy sources.
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WILKINSON, J. Pathway of the Synthesis of Fucose from Glucose in Klebsiella aerogenes . Nature 180, 995 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180995a0
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