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Engineering Potato Starch with a Higher Phosphate Content.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Xu Xuan, Huang Xing-Feng, Visser Richard G F, Trindade Luisa M
Abstract excerpt
Phosphate esters are responsible for valuable and unique functionalities of starch for industrial applications. Also in the cell phosphate esters play a role in starch metabolism, which so far has not been well characterized in storage starch. Laforin, a human enzyme composed of a carbohydrate-binding module and a dual-specificity phosphatase domain, is involved in the dephosphorylation of glycogen. To modify...
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