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AN enzyme capable of sucrose synthesis has been prepared from dried cells of the bacterium Pseudomonas saccharophila
1. This enzyme, sucrose phosphorylase, catalyses the reversible reaction 
. The equilibrium constant for this reaction 
is 0.05 at pH 6.6 and 30° C.2. Attempts to demonstrate a sucrose phosphorylase in various plant tissue extracts have been unsuccessful3.
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TURNER, J. Synthesis of Sucrose by a Plant Enzyme Extract. Nature 172, 1149–1150 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1721149a0
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