1. The distributions of (14)C have been compared in the glucose and galactose moieties of lactose obtained from cows' udders perfused with blood containing [1-(14)C]-, [2-(14)C]- and [6-(14)C]-glucose. The (14)C of the glucose moiety was found in the same position as that of the administered glucose, but in the galactose moiety the (14)C from [2-(14)C]glucose was extensively randomized into positions 1 and 3. It is concluded that the glucose moiety arose from free glucose and the galactose moiety from hexose phosphate intermediates and that the latter reflected the randomization occurring through reactions of the pentose cycle. 2. The proportion of the glucose metabolized via the pentose cycle for those cells making lactose was estimated from the distribution of (14)C in the galactose moiety and found to be about 23% in one experiment and 30% in another experiment. 3. The yield and distribution of (14)C were determined in the glycerol of fat from the tissue in experiments with [2-(14)C]- and [6-(14)C]-glucose. There was a greater randomization of (14)C in the glycerol than in C-1, C-2 and C-3 of the galactose moiety of lactose. The ratio of the yield of (14)C in the glycerol from [2-(14)C]glucose to that of [6-(14)C]glucose was very low and from this ratio it was calculated that less than 10% of the glucose was metabolized by the Embden-Meyerhof pathway and approx. 60-70% was converted into lactose. 4. [6-(14)C]Glucose and [6-(3)H]glucose were used to determine whether the (3)H at the C-6 position remained stable during its conversion into glyceride of fat from the tissue. Twenty-seven per cent of the (3)H was labilized during this conversion. Therefore it was not possible to use [2-(14)C]glucose and [6-(3)H]glucose in a single experiment to measure the relative conversion of the C-2 and C-6 positions of glucose to glycerol.
One pathway of propionic acid metabolism has been shown by Flavin, Ortiz & Ochoa (1956) to be: propionic acid-+ methylmalonic acid-+ succinic acid-. citric acid cycle. That this is not the only pathway is indicated by the work of Gray, Pilgrim, Rodda & Weller (1951) who demonstrated the synthesis of n-valeric acid from propionate and acetate in the rumen. Recently n-undecanoic, n-tridecanoic n-pentadecanoic and n-heptadecanoic acids have been isolated from some natural fats by Hansen, Shorland & Cooke (1954a, b, 1955) and by Shorland, Gerson & Hansen (1955). James & Martin (1956), James & Wheatley (1956) and Wheatley & James (1957) have demonstrated by means of gas-liquid chromatography the widespread occurrence of these straight-chain odd-numbered acids in natural
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