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The building block structure of barley amylopectin.
International journal of biological macromolecules - 1 Dec 2011
Bertoft Eric, Källman Anna, Koch Kristine, Andersson Roger, Aman Per
Abstract excerpt
Amylopectin branchpoints are present in amorphous lamellae of starch granules and organised into densely branched areas, referred to as building blocks. One single amylopectin cluster contains several building blocks. This study investigated the building block structure of domains (groups of clusters) and clusters in four different barley genotypes. Two of the barleys possessed the amo1 mutation, Glacier Ac38 and...
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