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  • Title: Enzymes of galactose utilization in the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta.
    Author: Komuniecki RW, Roberts LS.
    Journal: Comp Biochem Physiol B; 1977; 58(1):35-8. PubMed ID: 233785.
    Abstract:
    1. Crude enzyme preparations from Hymenolepis diminuta contained galactokinase, galactose 1-phosphate uridyl transferase and UDPgalactose 4-epimerase activity, although their specific activities were low. 2. Galactose 1-phosphate non-competitively inhibited galactose phosphorylation. This inhibition, together with the low specific activities of the enzymes in the pathway of galactose utilization, probably accounts for the inadequacy of galactose as a main nutritive carbohydrate for development of the worm.
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