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Structural Biology 2018
Volume: 4
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Journal
Page 64
March 15-16 2018
Barcelona, Spain
10
th
Edition of International Conference on
Structural Biology
W
ith more than 400,000 plant and 1,000,000 estimated
metabolites, metabolomics is an emerging technology
that profiles the complete set of small naturally or induced
metabolites. The recent progress of metabolmics has led
to a comprehensive and global analysis of metabolites and
metabolic pathways. Recent development and results have
shown that metabolomics approach could be used to deciphere
the carbohydrates metabolism and determine the structures of
specificmetabolites.However, very fewworkshavebeen reporting
on the fructans metabolome during biosynthesis, translocation
and accumulation, as well as the source-sink relation. Therefore,
broader use of metabolomics will provide comprehensive data
sets necessary to model metabolic networks related to fructans
metabolism. The goal of this study was to profile the metabolome
of fructan biosynthesis in onion plant as model using GC-MS
and chemometrics. Results showed that besides conventional
sugars, other minor and even one rare sugar was detected during
the biosynthesis, accummulation and translocation of sugars.
These results indicate that other minor sugars play a role in the
biosynthetic and transocatiuon processes of fructans.
noureddine.benkeblia@uwimona.edu.jmMetabolomics profiling and the deciphering of fructans
metabolism in plant tissues
Sanya S Steen
and
Noureddine Benkeblia
The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Biochem Mol biol J, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-8084-C1-009