Experimentally Induced Bleaching in the Sea Anemone Exaiptasia Supports Glucose as a Main Metabolite Associated with Its Symbiosis

Table 2

Glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) specific activity in anemones in the symbiotic state compared to bleached anemones. Values are the means of three independent determinations ± SD. Specific activity in units (μmol substrate converted min⁻¹) per gram of protein mass. For each sample, three assays were performed (technical replicates) and averaged.

Enzyme	Enzyme specific activity		-Student
	Symbiotic	Bleached
GPDH		0.20 ± 0.08	12.95
			0.0001
G6PDH	0.65 ± 0.28	0.85 ± 0.10	3.11
			0.036