Mechanisms of Saccharide Polymerization and Depolymerization

J Marshall

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780124741508
• eBook ISBN: 9780323149693
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Mechanisms of Saccharide Polymerization and Depolymerization focuses on the role that various enzymes connected with sucrose play in controlling its concentration in the plant cell. This book discusses the reactions involved in the formation of lipid-linked saccharides. Organized into 30 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the effect of amphomycin on the transfer of radioactivity from mannosyl-phosphoryl-dolichol to lipid-linked oligosaccharides and from lipid-linked oligosaccharides to glycoproteins. This text then presents the properties of sucrose synthetase and sucrose phosphate synthetase. Other chapters consider the mechanism for the acceptor reactions of dextransucrase. This book discusses as well the factors involved in the digestion of raw starch by black Aspergillus amylase and other fungal enzymes with strong raw starch digesting activity. The final chapter describes the reaction between reducing sugars and amino compounds whereby it is usually termed the Maillard reaction. This book is a valuable resource for biochemists, biophysicists, microbiologists, and pharmacologists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Mechanisms of Saccharide Polymerization and depolymewzation
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Chapter 1. INHIBITION OF LIPID-LINKED SACCHARIDE FORMATION BY ANTIBIOTICS
• Chapter 2. THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF IMMUNOGENIC GLYCANS IN STREPTOCOCCUS FAECALIS BY THE THYMIDINE DIPHOSPHATE HEXOSE PATHWAY
• Chapter 3. REGULATION OF SUCROSE LEVELS IN PLANT CELLS
• Chapter 4. MECHANISM OF ACTION OF DEXTRANSUCRASE1
• Chapter 5. RAW STARCH DIGESTION BY MOLD GLUCOAMYLASES AND DEBRANCHING ENZYMES
• Chapter 6. DEGRADATION OF VARIOUS STARCH GRANULES BY AMYLASES
• Chapter 7. STUDIES ON THE α-AMYLASE FROM STREPTOMYCES HYGROSCOPICUS
• Chapter 8. A NOVEL GLUCOAMYLASE FROM CLADOSPORIUM RESINAE
• Chapter 9. MECHANISM OF α-LIMIT DEXTRIN HYDROLYSIS BY INTESTINAL STJCRASE-ISOMALTASE
• Chapter 10. THE MODE OF ANCHORING OF SUCRASE-ISOMALTASE TO THES MALL - INTESTINAL BRUSH BORDER MEMBRANE AND ITS BIOSYNTHETIC IMPLICATIONS
• Chapter 11. THE ROLE OF PHOSPHORYLASE IN THE SYNTHESIS, OF STARCH IN MAIZE LEAF BUNDLE SHEATH CELLS
• Chapter 12. EVIDENCE FOR INDEPENDENT GENETIC CONTROL OF THE MULTIPLE FORMS OF MAIZE ENDOSPERM BRANCHING ENZYMES AND STARCH SYNTHASES
• Chapter 13. ON THE EFFECT OF LIPIDS ON STARCH-METABOLIZING ENZYMES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN RELATION TO THE SIMULTANEOUS SYNTHI OF AMYLOSE AND AMYLOPECTIN IN STARCH GRANULES
• Chapter 14. STUDIES ON THE LYSOSOMAL DEGRADATION OF GLYCOGEN IN CULTURED HUMAN SKIN FIBROBLASTS
• Chapter 15. A POSSIBLE ROLE FOR LIVER α-AMYLASE IN GLYCOGENESIS
• Chapter 16. THE INITIATION OF GLYCOGEN BIOSYNTHESIS IN HEART TISSUE
• Chapter 17. PROTEIN PHOSPHATASES: PROPERTIES AND ROLE IN THE REGULATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS AND BREAKDOWN
• Chapter 18. ENZYMATIC REGULATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS: PHOSPHORYLATION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE BY CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE, CYCLIC AMP-INDEPENDENT SYNTHASE KINASE AND PHOSPHORYLASE KINASE
• Chapter 19. COMPARATIVE CATALYTIC PROPERTIES OF LIVER GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE ISOZYMES FROM NEWBORN AND ADULT RAT
• Chapter 20. THE ACTION OF AN ACTIVE-SITE-DIRECTED IRREVERSIBLE INHIBITOR ON GLYCOGEN-DEBRANCHING ENZYME
• Chapter 21. HYDROLYSIS OF LEGUME SEED D-GALACTO-D-MANNANS BY α-D-GALACTOSIDASES AND 3-D-MANNANASES
• Chapter 22. THE USE OF SPECIFIC β-GLUCAN HYDROLASES IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF β-GLUCAN SYNTHETASE PRODUCTS
• Chapter 23. MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDASES FROM FLAVOBACTERIUM HEPARINUM: ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND USE FOR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CHONDROITIN SULFATES, HEPARIN, AND HEPARITIN SULFATES
• Chapter 24. SOME RECENT ASPECTS OF THE SPECIFICITY AND MECHANISM OF ACTION OF TREHALASES1
• Chapter 25. AMINE DERIVATIVES OF β-D-XYLOPYRANOSE AS REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE INHIBITORS OF β-D-XYLOSIDASES
• Chapter 26. DIGESTION OF CHITINOUS CUTICLE IN THE MOLT OF MANDUCA1
• Chapter 27. TRIFLUOROACETOLYSIS, A NEW VERSATILE METHOD FOR STUDIES OF GLYCOCONJUGATES1
• Chapter 28. BIOSYNTHESIS OF HEPARIN
• Chapter 29. SYNTHESIS OF HYBRIDS OF NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC POLYMERS AS MODELS FOR POLYSACCHARIDES, STARCH AND GLYCOPROTEINS
• Chapter 30. STUDIES OF THE MAILLARD REACTION
• Index