期刊
EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL
卷 82, 期 -, 页码 175-180出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2016.07.017
关键词
Glycogen; Branched polymer; Particle size; Kinetics; Diabetes
资金
- 1000-Talents Program of the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Experts Bureau
- Australian Research Council grant [DP130102461]
- Diabetes Australia research grant [Y15G-GILR]
- NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship [GNT1092451]
Glycogen, a hyperbranched glucose polymer, is the blood-sugar reservoir in animals. Liver glycogen comprises small beta particles, which can join together as large composite a particles. It had been shown that the binding between 13 in a particles in the liver of diabetic mice is more fragile than in healthy mice. This could be linked to the loss of blood-sugar control characteristic of diabetes if the rate per monomer unit of the enzymatic degradation to glucose of a particles were significantly slower than that of 6 particles. This is tested here by examining the in vitro time evolution of the molecular size distribution of glycogen from the livers of healthy and diabetic mice and rats, containing distinct components of both alpha and beta particles; this treatment is analogous to the competitive growth method used to explore mechanisms in emulsion polymerization. Simulations for the time evolution of the molecular size distribution were also performed. It is found that the degradation rate per monomer unit is indeed faster for the smaller particles, supporting the hypothesis of a causal link between chemical fragility of glycogen from diabetic liver with poor control of blood-sugar release. Comparison between simulations and experiment indicate that a and beta particles have significant structural differences. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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