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CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH
Volume 340, Issue 2, Pages 245-255Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2004.11.010
Keywords
starch granules; starch biosynthesis; starch chain elongation; reducing-end synthesis; nonreducing-end synthesis; maltodextrin primers; maltodextrin chain terminators; acceptor reactions; two-site insertion mechanism; starch synthase; starch branching enzyme; amylose; amylopectin
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Two mechanisms are recognized for polysaccharide chain elongation: (a) the nonreducing-end, primer-dependent mechanism and (b) the reducing-end, two-site insertion mechanism. We recently demonstrated the latter mechanism for starch biosynthesis by pulsing starch granules with ADP-[C-14]Glc and chasing with ADPGlc for eight varieties of starch granules. Others have reported the addition of glucose from ADPGlc to the nonreducing ends of maltose, maltotriose, and maltopentaose and a branched maltopentasaccharide. It was concluded that starch chains are biosynthesized by the addition of glucose to the nonreducing ends of maltodextrin primers. In this study, we reinvestigated the maltodextrin reactions by reacting three kinds of starch granules from maize, wheat, and rice with ADP-[C-14]Glc in the absence and presence of maltose (G2), maltotriose (G3), and maltodextrin (d.p. 12) and found that they inhibited starch biosynthesis rather than stimulating it, as would be expected for primers. The major product in the presence of G2 was G3 with decreasing amounts of G4-G9 and the major products in the presence of G3 was G4 and G5, with decreasing amounts of G6-G9. It was concluded that maltodextrins are acceptors rather than primers. This was confirmed by pulsing the starch granules with ADP-[C-14]Glc and chasing with G2, G3, and G6, which gave release of C-14-label from the pulsed granules in the absence of ADPGlc, further demonstrating that maltodextrins are acceptors that inhibit starch biosynthesis by releasing glucose from starch synthase, rather than acting as primers and stimulating biosynthesis. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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