Physicochemical variation of cyanobacterial starch, the insoluble α-glucans in cyanobacteria

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 465-473

  Suzuki, Eiji ^a   Onoda, Miho ^a   Colleoni, Christophe ^b   Ball, Steven ^b   Fujita, Naoko ^a   Nakamura, Yasunori ^a  

^a AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Glucan; Cyanobacterium; Cyanothece; Evolution; Semi amylopectin; Starch

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN; STARCH;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CYANOBACTERIA; GLUCANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STARCH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE; CYANOTHECE SP. ATCC 51142; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 84875972010     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcs190     Document Type: Article

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