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Mucosal maltase-glucoamylase plays a crucial role in starch digestion and prandial glucose homeostasis of mice.
The Journal of nutrition - 1 Apr 2009
Nichols Buford L, Quezada-Calvillo Roberto, Robayo-Torres Claudia C, Ao Zihua, Hamaker Bruce R, Butte Nancy F, Marini Juan, Jahoor Farook, Sterchi Erwin E
Abstract excerpt
Starch is the major source of food glucose and its digestion requires small intestinal alpha-glucosidic activities provided by the 2 soluble amylases and 4 enzymes bound to the mucosal surface of enterocytes. Two of these mucosal activities are associated with sucrase-isomaltase complex, while another 2 are named maltase-glucoamylase (Mgam) in mice. Because the role of Mgam in alpha-glucogenic digestion of starch...
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