Article
Novel, starch-like polysaccharides are synthesized by an unbound form of granule-bound starch synthase in glycogen-accumulating mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Plant physiology - 1 Jan 1999
Dauvillée D, Colleoni C, Shaw E, Mouille G, D'Hulst C, Morell M, Samuel M S, Bouchet B, Gallant D J, Sinskey A, Ball S
Abstract excerpt
In vascular plants, mutations leading to a defect in debranching enzyme lead to the simultaneous synthesis of glycogen-like material and normal starch. In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii comparable defects lead to the replacement of starch by phytoglycogen. Therefore, debranching was proposed to define...
Topics
- Amylopectin
- Amylose
- Animals
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Genes, Plant
- Genes, Protozoan
- Glycogen
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Polysaccharides
- Starch
- Starch Synthase