The primitive rhodophyte cyanidioschyzon merolae contains a semiamylopectin-type, but not an amylose-type, α-glucan

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 682-693

  Hirabaru, Chika ^a   Izumo, Asako ^a   Fujiwara, Shoko ^a   Tadokoro, Yukie ^a   Shimonaga, Takahiro ^a   Konishi, Mai ^a   Yoshida, Mayumi ^b   Fujita, Naoko ^b   Nakamura, Yasunori ^b   Yoshida, Masaki ^c   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^c   Tsuzuki, Mikio ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amylose; Cyanidioschyzon; Floridean starch; Glycogen; Semiamylopectin; Starch synthase

Indexed keywords

AMYLOPECTIN; AMYLOSE; GLUCAN; STARCH PHOSPHORYLASE; STARCH SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ASSAY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RED ALGA;

ALGAE, RED; AMYLOPECTIN; AMYLOSE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; ENZYME ASSAYS; GLUCANS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STARCH PHOSPHORYLASE; STARCH SYNTHASE;

ALGAE; CYANIDIOSCHYZON; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; CYANIDIUM CALDARIUM; GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA; PORPHYRIDIALES; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 77952411465     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq046     Document Type: Article

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