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Zhang K, Nakamura S, Ohtsubo KI, Mitsui T. Morphological, Molecular Structural and Physicochemical Characterization of Starch Granules Formed in Endosperm of Rice with Ectopic Overexpression of α-Amylase. J Appl Glycosci (1999) 2024; 71:23-32. [PMID: 38799415 PMCID: PMC11116087 DOI: 10.5458/jag.jag.jag-2023_0016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
Abstract
The objective of this study was to characterize the endosperm starch in rice that ectopically overexpressed the α-amylase. Transgenic rice plants, transformed with cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter driven AmyI-1 (35S::AmyI-1) and AmyII-4 (35S::AmyII-4), and 10 kDa prolamin promoter driven AmyI-1 (P10::AmyI-1), were cultivated under standard conditions (23 °C, 12 h in the dark/ 26 °C, 12 h in the light), and brown grains were subsequently harvested. Each grain displayed characteristic chalkiness, while electron microanalyzer (EPMA)-SEM images disclosed numerous small pits on the surface of the starch granules, attributable to α-amylase activity. Fluorescence labeling and capillary electrophoresis analysis of starch chain length distribution revealed no significant alterations in the starches of 35S::AmyI-1 and 35S::AmyII-4 transgenic rice compared to the wild-type. Conversely, the extremely short α-glucan chains (DP 2-8) exhibited a dramatic increase in the P10::AmyI-1 starch. Rapid visco-analyzer analysis also identified variations in the chain length distribution of P10::AmyI-1 starch, manifesting as changes in viscosity. Moreover, 1H-NMR analysis uncovered dynamic modifications in the molecular structure of starch in rice grain transformed with P10::AmyI-1, which was found to possess unprecedented structural characteristics.
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- Kuo Zhang
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University
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- Faculty of Applied Life Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences
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- Faculty of Applied Life Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University
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Li C, Wu A, Gilbert RG. Critical examination of the characterization techniques, and the evidence, for the existence of extra-long amylopectin chains. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 2023; 22:4053-4073. [PMID: 37458307 DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.13212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023]
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It has been suggested that amylopectin can contain small but significant amounts of extra-long chains (ELCs), which could affect functional properties, and also would have implications for the mechanism of starch biosynthesis. However, current evidence for the existence of ELCs is ambiguous. The amylose/amylopectin separation and the characterization techniques used for the investigation of ELCs are reviewed, problems in those techniques are examined, and studies of ELCs of amylopectin are discussed. A model for the biosynthesis of amylopectin chains in terms of conventional biosynthesis enzymes, which provides an excellent fit to a large amount of experimental data, is used to provide a rigorous definition of ELCs. In addition, current investigations of ELCs, involving separation, is hindered by the lack of a method to quantitatively separate all the amylopectin from starch without any traces of residual amylose (which would have long chains). Unambiguous evidence for the existence of ELCs can be obtained using two-dimensional (2D) characterization, these dimensions being the degree of polymerization of a chain and the size of the whole molecule. Available 2D data indicate that there are no ELCs present in currently detectable quantities in native rice starches. However, concluding this more rigorously requires improvements in the resolution of current 2D methods.
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- Changfeng Li
- Department of Food Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Burock R, Cajic S, Hennig R, Buettner FFR, Reichl U, Rapp E. Reliable N-Glycan Analysis-Removal of Frequently Occurring Oligosaccharide Impurities by Enzymatic Degradation. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28041843. [PMID: 36838829 PMCID: PMC9967028 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28041843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Glycosylation, especially N-glycosylation, is one of the most common protein modifications, with immense importance at the molecular, cellular, and organismal level. Thus, accurate and reliable N-glycan analysis is essential in many areas of pharmaceutical and food industry, medicine, and science. However, due to the complexity of the cellular glycosylation process, in-depth glycoanalysis is still a highly challenging endeavor. Contamination of samples with oligosaccharide impurities (OSIs), typically linear glucose homo-oligomers, can cause further complications. Due to their physicochemical similarity to N-glycans, OSIs produce potentially overlapping signals, which can remain unnoticed. If recognized, suspected OSI signals are usually excluded in data evaluation. However, in both cases, interpretation of results can be impaired. Alternatively, sample preparation can be repeated to include an OSI removal step from samples. However, this significantly increases sample amount, time, and effort necessary. To overcome these issues, we investigated the option to enzymatically degrade and thereby remove interfering OSIs as a final sample preparation step. Therefore, we screened ten commercially available enzymes concerning their potential to efficiently degrade maltodextrins and dextrans as most frequently found OSIs. Of these enzymes, only dextranase from Chaetomium erraticum and glucoamylase P from Hormoconis resinae enabled a degradation of OSIs within only 30 min that is free of side reactions with N-glycans. Finally, we applied the straightforward enzymatic degradation of OSIs to N-glycan samples derived from different standard glycoproteins and various stem cell lysates.
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- Robert Burock
- MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstraße 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- glyXera GmbH, Brenneckestraße 20, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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- MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstraße 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- glyXera GmbH, Brenneckestraße 20, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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- MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstraße 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- glyXera GmbH, Brenneckestraße 20, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
- Correspondence:
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- Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstraße 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Bioprocess Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstraße 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- glyXera GmbH, Brenneckestraße 20, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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Robb M, Hobbs JK, Boraston AB. Separation and Visualization of Glycans by Fluorophore-Assisted Carbohydrate Electrophoresis. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2657:215-222. [PMID: 37149534 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3151-5_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis (FACE) is a method in which a fluorophore is covalently attached to the reducing end of carbohydrates, thereby allowing high-resolution separation by electrophoresis and visualization. This method can be used for carbohydrate profiling and sequencing, as well as for determining the specificity of carbohydrate-active enzymes. Here we describe and demonstrate the use of FACE to separate and visualize the glycans released following digestion of oligosaccharides by glycoside hydrolases (GHs) using two examples: (i) the digestion of chitobiose by the streptococcal β-hexosaminidase GH20C and (ii) the digestion of glycogen by the GH13 member SpuA.
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- Mélissa Robb
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
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Xu H, Zhou J, Liu X, Yu J, Copeland L, Wang S. Methods for characterizing the structure of starch in relation to its applications: a comprehensive review. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2021:1-18. [PMID: 34847797 DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2021.2007843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Starch is a major part of the human diet and an important material for industrial utilization. The structure of starch granules is the subject of intensive research because it determines functionality, and hence suitability for specific applications. Starch granules are made up of a hierarchy of complex structural elements, from lamellae and amorphous regions to blocklets, growth rings and granules, which increase in scale from nanometers to microns. The complexity of these native structures changes with the processing of starch-rich ingredients into foods and other products. This review aims to provide a comprehensive review of analytical methods developed to characterize structure of starch granules, and their applications in analyzing the changes in starch structure as a result of processing, with particular consideration of the poorly understood short-range ordered structures in amorphous regions of granules.
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- Hanbin Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China.,College of Food Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China.,College of Food Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China.,College of Food Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
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Ran L, Luo J, Wang Y, Zou J, Yao H, Zhang R, Chen X, Xiong F. Structural and Physicochemical Properties of Starch Isolated from the Rhizome of
Drynaria roosii
: A Novel Source. STARCH-STARKE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/star.202100019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Liping Ran
- Guangling College of Yangzhou University Guangling College Yangzhou Jiangsu 225128 China
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- Guangling College of Yangzhou University Guangling College Yangzhou Jiangsu 225128 China
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- Guangling College of Yangzhou University Guangling College Yangzhou Jiangsu 225128 China
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- Guangling College of Yangzhou University Guangling College Yangzhou Jiangsu 225128 China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture & Agri‐Product Safety Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/Jiangsu Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture & Agri‐Product Safety Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/Jiangsu Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture & Agri‐Product Safety Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/Jiangsu Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture & Agri‐Product Safety Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/Jiangsu Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 China
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Mrudulakumari Vasudevan U, Lee OK, Lee EY. Alginate derived functional oligosaccharides: Recent developments, barriers, and future outlooks. Carbohydr Polym 2021; 267:118158. [PMID: 34119132 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Alginate is a biopolymer used extensively in the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Alginate oligosaccharides (AOS) derived from alginate exhibit superior biological activities and therapeutic potential. Alginate lyases with characteristic substrate specificity can facilitate the production of a broad array of AOS with precise structure and functionality. By adopting innovative analytical tools in conjunction with focused clinical studies, the structure-bioactivity relationship of a number of AOS has been brought to light. This review covers fundamental aspects and recent developments in AOS research. Enzymatic and microbial processes involved in AOS production from brown algae and sequential steps involved in AOS structure elucidation are outlined. Biological mechanisms underlying the health benefits of AOS and their potential industrial and therapeutic applications are elaborated. Withal, various challenges in AOS research are traced out, and future directions, specifically on recombinant systems for AOS preparation, are delineated to further widen the horizon of these exceptional oligosaccharides.
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- Ushasree Mrudulakumari Vasudevan
- Department of Chemical Engineering (Integrated Engineering), Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 17104, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering (Integrated Engineering), Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 17104, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering (Integrated Engineering), Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 17104, Republic of Korea.
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Zhong Y, Li Y, Qu J, Zhang X, Seytahmetovna SA, Blennow A, Guo D. Structural features of five types of maize starch granule subgroups sorted by flow cytometry. Food Chem 2021; 356:129657. [PMID: 33836359 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.129657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Subgroups of starch granules from five maize phenotypes including waxy-, normal-, popcorn-, sweet corn- and high-amylose maize were sorted by flow cytometry (FC) utilizing the side scatter channel (SSC) and forward scatter channel (FSC). SSC and FSC mainly reflecting internal object complexity, and object size, respectively. Subgroups with higher FSC signal always showed higher SSC signal, indicating larger granules exhibited higher internal structural complexity. Wide-angle and small-angle X-ray scattering analysis showed that the subgroups showing high SSC signal intensity also had high lamellar scattering intensity, and low crystallinity. Vibrational transitions of bonds analyzed by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) showed that the subgroups of maize starches, except sweet corn starch, with high SSC signal had high intensities at 1045 and 1022 cm-1. Hence, our data demonstrate that the structural complexity detected by the SSC signal is mainly associated with lamellar and crystalline features of starch granules.
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- Yuyue Zhong
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Arid Area of Northwest Region, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling Shaanxi 712100, China; Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Arid Area of Northwest Region, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Arid Area of Northwest Region, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Arid Area of Northwest Region, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Arid Area of Northwest Region, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling Shaanxi 712100, China.
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Nawaz A, Zhang P, Li E, Gilbert RG, Sullivan MA. The importance of glycogen molecular structure for blood glucose control. iScience 2021; 24:101953. [PMID: 33458612 PMCID: PMC7797522 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Type 2 diabetes incidence continues to increase rapidly. This disease is characterized by a breakdown in blood glucose homeostasis. The impairment of glycemic control is linked to the structure of glycogen, a highly branched glucose polymer. Liver glycogen, a major controller of blood sugar, comprises small β particles which can link together to form larger α particles. These degrade to glucose more slowly than β particles, enabling a controlled release of blood glucose. The α particles in diabetic mice are however easily broken down into β particles, which degrade more quickly. Because this may lead to higher blood glucose, understanding this diabetes-associated breakdown of α-particle molecular structure may help in the development of diabetes therapeutics. We review the extraction of liver glycogen, its molecular structure, and how this structure is affected by diabetes and then use this knowledge to make postulates to guide the development of strategies to help mitigate type 2 diabetes.
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- Asad Nawaz
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P.R. China
- Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- School of Electronic Information Engineering, Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing, 408100, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P.R. China
- Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P.R. China
- Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia
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- Glycation and Diabetes, Mater Research Institute – The University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia
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Zhu J, Yu W, Zhang C, Zhu Y, Xu J, Li E, Gilbert RG, Liu Q. New insights into amylose and amylopectin biosynthesis in rice endosperm. Carbohydr Polym 2019; 230:115656. [PMID: 31887861 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 11/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
How various isoforms of rice-starch biosynthesis enzymes interact during amylose and amylopectin synthesis is explored. The chain-length distributions of amylopectin and amylose from 95 varieties with different environmental and genetic backgrounds were obtained using size- exclusion chromatography, and fitted with biosynthesis-derived models based on isoforms of starch synthase (SSI-SSIV), starch branching enzyme (SBE, including SBEI and SBEII) and granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS) that are involved in amylose and amylopectin synthesis. It is usually thought that these are synthesized by separate enzymes. However, the amount of longer amylopectin chains correlated with that of shorter amylose chains, indicating that GBSS, SBE and SS affect both amylose and amylopectin synthesis. Further, the activity of GBSS in amylose correlated with that of SS in amylopectin. This new understanding of which enzymes are suggested by the statistics to be involved in both amylose and amylopectin synthesis could help rice breeders develop cereals with targeted properties.
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- Jihui Zhu
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, China; The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Department of Food Science & Engineering, Jinan University, Huangpu West Avenue 601, Guangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops of Jiangsu, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, China
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- Agricultural Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Agricultural Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops of Jiangsu, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops of Jiangsu, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, China; The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops of Jiangsu, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, China.
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Butardo VM, Sreenivasulu N, Juliano BO. Improving Rice Grain Quality: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1892:19-55. [PMID: 30397798 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8914-0_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Rice grain quality encompasses complex interrelated traits that cover biochemical composition, cooking, eating, nutritional, and sensory properties. Because rice endosperm is composed mainly of starch, rice grain quality is traditionally defined by characterizing starch structure and composition, which is then subsequently correlated with functional properties of the grain. The current proxy tests routinely used to describe rice grain quality preferences are rather limited to the estimation of apparent amylose content, gelatinization temperature, and gel consistency. Additional tests that characterize starch property, viscoelasticity, grain texture, and aroma are also employed in more advanced laboratories. However, these tests are not routinely applied in breeding programs to distinguish cooking quality classes to reflect evolving consumer preference and market demand. As consumer preferences in Asia and all over the world are diverse due to varied demographics and culture, defining uniform attributes to capture regional grain quality preferences becomes more challenging. Hence, novel and innovative proxy tests are needed to characterize rice grain quality to meet the demand for consumer preferences of commercially-released cultivars. In this chapter, the current methods employed in rice grain quality monitoring are succinctly reviewed. Future prospects for improvement are identified, introducing cutting edge technologies that can facilitate high-throughput screening of rice diversity panels and breeding lines. Aside from addressing the requirements for quality improvement in the traditional inbred rice breeding programs, we also tackled the need to enhance grain quality in the hybrid rice sector.
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- Vito M Butardo
- Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
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- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
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Yu W, Tao K, Gilbert RG. Improved methodology for analyzing relations between starch digestion kinetics and molecular structure. Food Chem 2018; 264:284-292. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.05.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Revised: 05/06/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Perez-Moral N, Plankeele JM, Domoney C, Warren FJ. Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-size exclusion chromatography (UPLC-SEC) as an efficient tool for the rapid and highly informative characterisation of biopolymers. Carbohydr Polym 2018; 196:422-426. [PMID: 29891314 PMCID: PMC6030444 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.05.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Revised: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Starch has a complex molecular structure, with properties dependent on the relative chain lengths and branching structure of its constituent molecules, which varies due to polymorphisms in starch biosynthetic genes, as well as environmental factors. Here we present the application of ultra-high performance size exclusion chromatography to the separation of starch chains from plant seeds. Several methods, have been used to analyse chain length distributions in starch, all with limitations in terms of analysis time, sample preparation and molecular weight range. Here we demonstrate that chain length distributions can be obtained with dramatically reduced analysis time using ultra-high performance size exclusion chromatography. The method may also show improvements in resolution of some fine structural features. Understanding links between starch fine structure and biosynthetic genes will allow bioengineering of starches with tailored properties. This technique may have application to the size separation and resolution of a range of biopolymers of value to the food, drink and pharmaceutical industries.
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- Natalia Perez-Moral
- Food and Health Programme, Quadram Institute Biosciences, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Department of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Food and Health Programme, Quadram Institute Biosciences, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK.
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Thomas BR, Brandley BK, Rodriguez RL. Rapid Analysis of Saccharides in Beer via Fluorescence-Assisted Carbohydrate Electrophoresis. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BREWING CHEMISTS 2018. [DOI: 10.1094/asbcj-58-0124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Bruce R. Thomas
- Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California-Davis, Davis 95616
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Parameterizing amylose chain-length distributions for biosynthesis-structure-property relations. Anal Bioanal Chem 2017; 409:6813-6819. [PMID: 28948315 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-017-0639-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Revised: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Amylose, one of the components of starch, is a glucose polymer consisting largely of long, linear chains with a few long-chain branch points. The chain-length (molecular weight) distribution (CLD) of the component chains of amylose can provide information on amylose biosynthesis-structure-property relations, as has been done previously by fitting amylopectin CLDs to a model with physically meaningful parameters. Due to the presence of long chains, the CLD of amylose can currently best be obtained by size-exclusion chromatography, a technique that suffers from band-broadening effects which alter the observed distribution. The features of the multiple regions present in amylose chain-length distributions are also difficult to resolve, an issue that combines with band broadening to compound the difficulty of analysis and subsequent parameterization of the structural characteristics of amylose. A new method is presented to fit these distributions with biologically meaningful parameters in a way that accounts for band broadening. This is achieved by assuming that band broadening takes the form of a simple Gaussian over a relatively small region and that chain stoppage is a random process independent of the length of the substrate chain over the same region; these assumptions are relatively weak and expected to be frequently applicable. The method provides inbuilt consistency tests for its applicability to a given data set and, in cases where it is applicable, allows for the first nonempirical parameterization of amylose biosynthesis-structure-property relations from CLDs by using parameters directly linked to the activities of the enzymes responsible for chain growth and chain stoppage. Graphical abstract Model calculation illustrating the method described and showing the division between the three characteristic regions of a typical amylose chain-length distribution.
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Starch is a major food supply for humanity. It is produced in seeds, rhizomes, roots and tubers in the form of semi-crystalline granules with unique properties for each plant. Though the size and morphology of the granules is specific for each plant species, their internal structures have remarkably similar architecture, consisting of growth rings, blocklets, and crystalline and amorphous lamellae. The basic components of starch granules are two polyglucans, namely amylose and amylopectin. The molecular structure of amylose is comparatively simple as it consists of glucose residues connected through α-(1,4)-linkages to long chains with a few α-(1,6)-branches. Amylopectin, which is the major component, has the same basic structure, but it has considerably shorter chains and a lot of α-(1,6)-branches. This results in a very complex, three-dimensional structure, the nature of which remains uncertain. Several models of the amylopectin structure have been suggested through the years, and in this review two models are described, namely the “cluster model” and the “building block backbone model”. The structure of the starch granules is discussed in light of both models.
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Ral JPF, Sun M, Mathy A, Pritchard JR, Konik-Rose C, Larroque O, Newberry M. A biotechnological approach to directly assess the impact of elevated endogenous α-amylase on Asian white-salted noodle quality. STARCH-STARKE 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/star.201700089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food; Canberra ACT Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food; Canberra ACT Australia
- ISARA Lyon AGRAPOLE - 23; Lyon Cedex France
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Zortéa-Guidolin MEB, Demiate IM, Godoy RCBD, Scheer ADP, Grewell D, Jane JL. Structural and functional characterization of starches from Brazilian pine seeds (Araucaria angustifolia). Food Hydrocoll 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2016.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Mitchell M, Pritchard J, Okada S, Larroque O, Yulia D, Pettolino F, Szydlowski N, Singh S, Liu Q, Ral JP. Oil Accumulation in Transgenic Potato Tubers Alters Starch Quality and Nutritional Profile. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:554. [PMID: 28446916 PMCID: PMC5388768 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Plant storage compounds such as starch and lipids are important for human and animal nutrition as well as industry. There is interest in diverting some of the carbon stored in starch-rich organs (leaves, tubers, and cereal grains) into lipids in order to improve the energy density or nutritional properties of crops as well as providing new sources of feedstocks for food and manufacturing. Previously, we generated transgenic potato plants that accumulate up to 3.3% triacylglycerol (TAG) by dry weight in the tubers, which also led to changes in starch content, starch granule morphology and soluble sugar content. The aim of this study was to investigate how TAG accumulation affects the nutritional and processing properties of high oil potatoes with a particular focus on starch structure, physical and chemical properties. Overall, TAG accumulation was correlated with increased energy density, total nitrogen, amino acids, organic acids and inorganic phosphate, which could be of potential nutritional benefit. However, TAG accumulation had negative effects on starch quality as well as quantity. Starch from high oil potatoes had lower amylose and phosphate content, reduced peak viscosity and higher gelatinization temperature. Interestingly, starch pasting properties were disproportionately affected in lines accumulating the highest levels of TAG (>2.5%) compared to those accumulating only moderate levels (0.2-1.6%). These results indicate that optimized engineering of specialized crops for food, feed, fuel and chemical industries requires careful selection of traits, and an appropriate level of transgene expression, as well as a better understanding of starch structure and carbon partitioning in plant storage organs.
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- Madeline Mitchell
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
- *Correspondence: Madeline Mitchell
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, USR 3290 - MSAP - Miniaturisation pour la Synthèse l'Analyse et la ProtéomiqueLille, France
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra, ACT, Australia
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Separation and Visualization of Glycans by Fluorophore-Assisted Carbohydrate Electrophoresis. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1588:215-221. [PMID: 28417372 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6899-2_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis (FACE) is a method in which a fluorophore is covalently attached to the reducing end of carbohydrates, thereby allowing visualization following high-resolution separation by electrophoresis. This method can be used for carbohydrate profiling and sequencing, as well as for the determination of the specificity of carbohydrate-active enzymes. Here, we describe and demonstrate the use of FACE to separate and visualize the glycans released following digestion of oligosaccharides by glycoside hydrolases (GHs) using two examples: (1) the digestion of chitobiose by the streptococcal β-hexosaminidase GH20C, and (2) the digestion of glycogen by the GH13 member SpuA.
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Yangcheng H, Belamkar V, Cannon SB, Jane JL. Characterization and development mechanism of Apios americana tuber starch. Carbohydr Polym 2016; 151:198-205. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2016.05.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2016] [Revised: 05/16/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Gong W, Zhang H, Tian L, Liu S, Wu X, Li F, Wang L. Determination of the modes of action and synergies of xylanases by analysis of xylooligosaccharide profiles over time using fluorescence-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 2016; 37:1640-50. [PMID: 27060349 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201600041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Revised: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The structure of xylan, which has a 1,4-linked β-xylose backbone with various substituents, is much more heterogeneous and complex than that of cellulose. Because of this, complete degradation of xylan needs a large number of enzymes that includes GH10, GH11, and GH3 family xylanases together with auxiliary enzymes. Fluorescence-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis (FACE) is able to accurately differentiate unsubstituted and substituted xylooligosaccharides (XOS) in the heterogeneous products generated by different xylanases and allows changes in concentrations of specific XOS to be analyzed quantitatively. Based on a quantitative analysis of XOS profiles over time using FACE, we have demonstrated that GH10 and GH11 family xylanases immediately degrade xylan into sizeable XOS, which are converted into smaller XOS in a much lower speed. The shortest substituted XOS produced by hydrolysis of the substituted xylan backbone by GH10 and GH11 family xylanases were MeGlcA(2) Xyl3 and MeGlcA(2) Xyl4 , respectively. The unsubstituted xylan backbone was degraded into xylose, xylobiose, and xylotriose by both GH10 and GH11 family xylanases; the product profiles are not family-specific but, instead, depend on different subsite binding affinities in the active sites of individual enzymes. Synergystic action between xylanases and β-xylosidase degraded MeGlcA(2) Xyl4 into xylose and MeGlcA(2) Xyl3 but further degradation of MeGlcA(2) Xyl3 required additional enzymes. Synergy between xylanases and β-xylosidase was also found to significantly accelerate the conversion of XOS into xylose.
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- Weili Gong
- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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- Taishan College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, P. R. China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
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Yangcheng H, Gong L, Zhang Y, Jane JL. Pysicochemical properties of Tibetan hull-less barley starch. Carbohydr Polym 2016; 137:525-531. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.10.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Revised: 10/12/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Ral JP, Whan A, Larroque O, Leyne E, Pritchard J, Dielen AS, Howitt CA, Morell MK, Newberry M. Engineering high α-amylase levels in wheat grain lowers Falling Number but improves baking properties. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2016; 14:364-76. [PMID: 26010869 PMCID: PMC4736685 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2014] [Revised: 03/25/2015] [Accepted: 03/28/2015] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Late maturity α-amylase (LMA) and preharvest sprouting (PHS) are genetic defects in wheat. They are both characterized by the expression of specific isoforms of α-amylase in particular genotypes in the grain prior to harvest. The enhanced expression of α-amylase in both LMA and PHS results in a reduction in Falling Number (FN), a test of gel viscosity, and subsequent downgrading of the grain, along with a reduced price for growers. The FN test is unable to distinguish between LMA and PHS; thus, both defects are treated similarly when grain is traded. However, in PHS-affected grains, proteases and other degradative process are activated, and this has been shown to have a negative impact on end product quality. No studies have been conducted to determine whether LMA is detrimental to end product quality. This work demonstrated that wheat in which an isoform α-amylase (TaAmy3) was overexpressed in the endosperm of developing grain to levels of up to 100-fold higher than the wild-type resulted in low FN similar to those seen in LMA- or PHS-affected grains. This increase had no detrimental effect on starch structure, flour composition and enhanced baking quality, in small-scale 10-g baking tests. In these small-scale tests, overexpression of TaAmy3 led to increased loaf volume and Maillard-related browning to levels higher than those in control flours when baking improver was added. These findings raise questions as to the validity of the assumption that (i) LMA is detrimental to end product quality and (ii) a low FN is always indicative of a reduction in quality. This work suggests the need for a better understanding of the impact of elevated expression of specific α-amylase on end product quality.
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- CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Gamini A, Coslovi A, Toppazzini M, Rustighi I, Campa C, Vetere A, Paoletti S. Use of Capillary Electrophoresis for Polysaccharide Studies and Applications. Methods Mol Biol 2016; 1483:339-363. [PMID: 27645744 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6403-1_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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CE applications to charged polysaccharides are briefly reported. A simple procedure is presented to determine the esterification degree of a hyaluronan derivative. In this case the degree of substitution was as low as 14 %.The molecular weight distribution of mannuronic oligosaccharides mixture produced by hydrolysis of native polymannuronic is readily calculated from peak area of the species resolved by CE on the basis of a specific degree of polymerization.The influence of the applied electric field strength on the free solution mobility of hyaluronan samples is briefly addressed for molar masses of the order of 10(5) and 10(6) g/mol. The data are compared with the results obtained for a 50 % galactose substituted HA.Mobility data obtained as a function of buffer pH for a native HA sample as well as for two galactose-amide HA derivatives, having slightly different degrees of substitution, are presented and discussed in terms of the polymer charge density parameters ξ.In most cases, more questions than answers arise from the application of CE to charged polysaccharides. However, perspectives are disclosed for a further understanding of the reliability of CE applied for the structural elucidation of such macromolecules.
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- Amelia Gamini
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 1, Trieste, 34127, Italy.
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- GSK Vaccines, Manufacturing Science & Technology Bellaria di Rosia, Sovicille (Siena), Italy
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- GSK Vaccines, Manufacturing Science & Technology Bellaria di Rosia, Sovicille (Siena), Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 1, Trieste, 34127, Italy
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- GSK Vaccines, Manufacturing Science & Technology Bellaria di Rosia, Sovicille (Siena), Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 1, Trieste, 34127, Italy
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Lee CJ, Yangcheng H, Cheng JJ, Jane JL. Starch characterization and ethanol production of duckweed and corn kernel. STARCH-STARKE 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/star.201500126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Chang Joo Lee
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Iowa State University; Ames IA USA
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Iowa State University; Ames IA USA
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- Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering; North Carolina State University; Raleigh NC USA
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Iowa State University; Ames IA USA
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Ai Y, Gong L, Reed M, Huang J, Zhang Y, Jane JL. Characterization of starch from bamboo seeds. STARCH-STARKE 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/star.201500206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Yongfeng Ai
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Iowa State University; Ames IA USA
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province P. R. China
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Iowa State University; Ames IA USA
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province P. R. China
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province P. R. China
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Iowa State University; Ames IA USA
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Wang L, Regina A, Butardo VM, Kosar-Hashemi B, Larroque O, Kahler CM, Wise MJ. Influence of in situ progressive N-terminal is still controversial truncation of glycogen branching enzyme in Escherichia coli DH5α on glycogen structure, accumulation, and bacterial viability. BMC Microbiol 2015; 15:96. [PMID: 25947105 PMCID: PMC4433092 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0421-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Glycogen average chain length (ACL) has been linked with bacterial durability, but this was on the basis of observations across different species. We therefore wished to investigate the relationship between bacterial durability and glycogen ACL by varying glycogen average chain length in a single species. It has been shown that progressive shortening of the N-terminus of glycogen branching enzyme (GBE) leads to a lengthening of oligosaccharide inter-α-1,6-glycosidic chain lengths, so we sought to harness this to create a set of Escherichia coli DH5α strains with a range of glycogen average chain lengths, and assess these strains for durability related attributes, such as starvation, cold and desiccation stress resistance, and biofilm formation. RESULTS A series of Escherichia coli DH5α mutants were created with glgB genes that were in situ progressively N-terminus truncated. N-terminal truncation shifted the distribution of glycogen chain lengths from 5-11 DP toward 13-50 DP, but the relationship between glgB length and glycogen ACL was not linear. Surprisingly, removal of the first 270 nucleotides of glgB (glgBΔ270) resulted in comparatively high glycogen accumulation, with the glycogen having short ACL. Complete knockout of glgB led to the formation of amylose-like glycogen containing long, linear α1,4-glucan chains with significantly reduced branching frequency. Physiologically, the set of mutant strains had reduced bacterial starvation resistance, while minimally increasing bacterial desiccation resistance. Finally, although there were no obvious changes in cold stress resistance or biofilm forming ability, one strain (glgBΔ180) had significantly increased biofilm formation in favourable media. CONCLUSIONS Despite glgB being the first gene of an operon, it is clear that in situ mutation is a viable means to create more biologically relevant mutant strains. Secondly, there was the suggestion in the data that impairments of starvation, cold and desiccation resistance were worse for the strain lacking glgB, though the first of these was not statistically significant. The results provide prima facie evidence linking abiotic stress tolerance with shorter glycogen ACL. However, further work needs to be done, perhaps in a less labile species. Further work is also required to tease out the complex relationship between glycogen abundance and glycogen structure.
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- Liang Wang
- School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
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- CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Canberra, Australia.
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- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines.
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- School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
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Shrestha AK, Blazek J, Flanagan BM, Dhital S, Larroque O, Morell MK, Gilbert EP, Gidley MJ. Molecular, mesoscopic and microscopic structure evolution during amylase digestion of extruded maize and high amylose maize starches. Carbohydr Polym 2015; 118:224-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Revised: 11/04/2014] [Accepted: 11/05/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Zhang Q, Zhang X, Wang P, Li D, Chen G, Gao P, Wang L. Determination of the action modes of cellulases from hydrolytic profiles over a time course using fluorescence-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 2015; 36:910-7. [PMID: 25546561 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201400563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2014] [Revised: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Fluorescence-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis (FACE) is a sensitive and simple method for the separation of oligosaccharides. It relies on labeling the reducing ends of oligosaccharides with a fluorophore, followed by PAGE. Concentration changes of oligosaccharides following hydrolysis of a carbohydrate polymer could be quantitatively measured continuously over time using the FACE method. Based on the quantitative analysis, we suggested that FACE was a relatively high-throughput, repeatable, and suitable method for the analysis of the action modes of cellulases. On account of the time courses of their hydrolytic profiles, the apparent processivity was used to show the different action modes of cellulases. Cellulases could be easily differentiated as exoglucanases, β-glucosidases, or endoglucanases. Moreover, endoglucanases from the same glycoside hydrolases family had a variety of apparent processivity, indicating the different modes of action. Endoglucanases with the same binding capacities and hydrolytic activities had similar oligosaccharide profiles, which aided in their classification. The hydrolytic profile of Trichoderma reesei Cel12A, an endoglucanases from T. reesei, contained glucose, cellobiose, and cellotriose, which revealed that it may have a new glucosidase activity, corresponding to that of EC 3.2.1.74. A hydrolysate study of a T. reesei Cel12A-N20A mutant demonstrated that the FACE method was sufficiently sensitive to detect the influence of a single-site mutation on enzymatic activity.
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- Qing Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Jiang H, Campbell M, Wu Y, Du S, Srichuwong S, Jane JL. Dosage effect of high-amylose modifier gene(s) on the starch structure of maize amylose-extender mutant. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2015; 63:433-439. [PMID: 25495144 DOI: 10.1021/jf504099x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The objective of this study was to investigate how dosages of high-amylose modifier (HAM) gene(s) affected the structure of maize amylose extender (ae) mutant starch. GEMS-0067 (G), a homozygous mutant of ae and the HAM gene(s), and H99ae (H), an ae single mutant, were self-pollinated or inter-crossed to produce maize endosperms of G/G, G/H, H/G, and H/H with 3, 2, 1, and 0 doses of HAM gene(s), respectively. Endosperm starch was fractionated into amylopectin, amylose, and intermediate component (IC) of large and small molecular weights using 1-butanol precipitation of amylose followed by gel-permeation chromatography. Increases in the dosage of HAM gene(s) from 0 to 3 decreased the amylopectin content. The HAM-gene dosage significantly changed the branch chain-length of small-molecular-weight IC, but had little effect on the branch chain-length distributions of amylopectin and large-molecular-weight IC and the molecular structure of amylose.
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- Hongxin Jiang
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University , Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Gous PW, Gilbert RG, Fox GP. Drought-proofing barley (Hordeum vulgare) and its impact on grain quality: A review. JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF BREWING 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/jib.187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Peter W. Gous
- Tongji School of Pharmacy; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences; Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Sciences; Hartley Teakle Building Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- Tongji School of Pharmacy; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences; Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Sciences; Hartley Teakle Building Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences; Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Sciences; Hartley Teakle Building Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition; University of Minnesota; St Paul MN
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Sawada T, Nakamura Y, Ohdan T, Saitoh A, Francisco PB, Suzuki E, Fujita N, Shimonaga T, Fujiwara S, Tsuzuki M, Colleoni C, Ball S. Diversity of reaction characteristics of glucan branching enzymes and the fine structure of α-glucan from various sources. Arch Biochem Biophys 2014; 562:9-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2014.07.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2014] [Revised: 07/08/2014] [Accepted: 07/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Multifunctional nutrient-binding proteins adapt human symbiotic bacteria for glycan competition in the gut by separately promoting enhanced sensing and catalysis. mBio 2014; 5:e01441-14. [PMID: 25205092 PMCID: PMC4173775 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01441-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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To compete for the dynamic stream of nutrients flowing into their ecosystem, colonic bacteria must respond rapidly to new resources and then catabolize them efficiently once they are detected. The Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron starch utilization system (Sus) is a model for nutrient acquisition by symbiotic gut bacteria, which harbor thousands of related Sus-like systems. Structural investigation of the four Sus outer membrane proteins (SusD, -E, -F, and -G) revealed that they contain a total of eight starch-binding sites that we demonstrated, using genetic and biochemical approaches, to play distinct roles in starch metabolism in vitro and in vivo in gnotobiotic mice. SusD, whose homologs are abundant in the human microbiome, is critical for the initial sensing of available starch, allowing sus transcriptional activation at much lower concentrations than without this function. In contrast, seven additional binding sites across SusE, -F, and -G are dispensable for sus activation. However, they optimize the rate of growth on starch in a manner dependent on the expression of the bacterial polysaccharide capsule, suggesting that they have evolved to offset the diffusion barrier created by this structure. These findings demonstrate how proteins with similar biochemical behavior can serve orthogonal functions during different stages of cellular adaptation to nutrients. Finally, we demonstrated in gnotobiotic mice fed a starch-rich diet that the Sus binding sites confer a competitive advantage to B. thetaiotaomicron in vivo in a manner that is dependent on other colonizing microbes. This study reveals how numerically dominant families of carbohydrate-binding proteins in the human microbiome fulfill separate and sometimes cooperative roles to optimize gut commensal bacteria for nutrient acquisition. Our intestinal tract harbors trillions of symbiotic microbes. A critical function contributed by this microbial community is the ability to degrade most of the complex carbohydrates in our diet, which not only change from meal to meal but also cannot be digested by our own bodies. A numerically abundant group of gut bacteria called the Bacteroidetes plays a prominent role in carbohydrate digestion in humans and other animals. Currently, the mechanisms that allow this bacterial group to rapidly respond to available carbohydrates and then digest them efficiently are unclear. Here, we present novel functions for four carbohydrate-binding proteins present in one member of the Bacteroidetes, revealing that these proteins serve unique and separable roles in either initial nutrient sensing or subsequent digestion. Because the protein families investigated are numerous in other gut bacteria colonizing nearly all humans and animals, our findings are fundamentally important to understanding how symbiotic microbes assist human digestion.
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Fernández de la Ossa MÁ, Ortega-Ojeda F, García-Ruiz C. Analysis and differentiation of paper samples by capillary electrophoresis and multivariate analysis. Electrophoresis 2014; 35:3264-71. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201300603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2013] [Revised: 05/27/2014] [Accepted: 06/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Ma Ángeles Fernández de la Ossa
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Multipurpose Building of Chemistry; University of Alcalá; Alcalá de Henares Spain
- University Institute of Research in Police Sciences (IUICP); University of Alcalá; Alcalá de Henares Spain
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- University Institute of Research in Police Sciences (IUICP); University of Alcalá; Alcalá de Henares Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Multipurpose Building of Chemistry; University of Alcalá; Alcalá de Henares Spain
- University Institute of Research in Police Sciences (IUICP); University of Alcalá; Alcalá de Henares Spain
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Nakamura Y, Aihara S, Crofts N, Sawada T, Fujita N. In vitro studies of enzymatic properties of starch synthases and interactions between starch synthase I and starch branching enzymes from rice. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 224:1-8. [PMID: 24908500 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2014] [Revised: 03/26/2014] [Accepted: 03/30/2014] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The present study was conducted to characterize the functions of the major starch synthase (SS) isozymes SSI, SSIIa, and SSIIIa in rice endosperm and their functional interaction with starch branching enzyme (BE), by using their purified recombinant proteins. All the SS isozymes had similarly significant activities toward branched glucans such as amylopecin and glycogen whereas they scarcely showed activities toward maltohexaose. In vitro studies indicate that SSI mainly attacked A and B chains with degree of polymerization (DP) of 6 and 7 in their external segments and elongated them to DP8. It is likely that SSIIa and SSIIIa produced wider ranges of intermediate chains and long chains, respectively. This study also revealed that without addition of exogenous primer, the glucan synthesis of SSI in the presence of ≧0.3 M citrate was accelerated by the addition of any of the rice BE isozymes- BEI, BEIIa, or BEIIb, whereas no such interaction occurred between SSIIa or SSIIIa with any of the BEs. The SSI-BE unprimed glucan synthesis absolutely required citrate. The interaction between SSI and BE was established by stimulation of SSI activity with BE and by activation of the BE activity by SSI.
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- Yasunori Nakamura
- Faculty of Bioresource Science, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo-Nakano, Akita-City 010-0195, Japan.
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- Faculty of Bioresource Science, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo-Nakano, Akita-City 010-0195, Japan
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- Faculty of Bioresource Science, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo-Nakano, Akita-City 010-0195, Japan
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- Faculty of Bioresource Science, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo-Nakano, Akita-City 010-0195, Japan
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- Faculty of Bioresource Science, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo-Nakano, Akita-City 010-0195, Japan
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Streb S, Zeeman SC. Replacement of the endogenous starch debranching enzymes ISA1 and ISA2 of Arabidopsis with the rice orthologs reveals a degree of functional conservation during starch synthesis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e92174. [PMID: 24642810 PMCID: PMC3958451 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2013] [Accepted: 02/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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This study tested the interchangeability of enzymes in starch metabolism between dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plant species. Amylopectin - a branched glucose polymer - is the major component of starch and is responsible for its semi-crystalline property. Plants synthesize starch with distinct amylopectin structures, varying between species and tissues. The structure determines starch properties, an important characteristic for cooking and nutrition, and for the industrial uses of starch. Amylopectin synthesis involves at least three enzyme classes: starch synthases, branching enzymes and debranching enzymes. For all three classes, several enzyme isoforms have been identified. However, it is not clear which enzyme(s) are responsible for the large diversity of amylopectin structures. Here, we tested whether the specificities of the debranching enzymes (ISA1 and ISA2) are major determinants of species-dependent differences in amylopectin structure by replacing the dicotyledonous Arabidopsis isoamylases (AtISA1 and AtISA2) with the monocotyledonous rice (Oryza sativa) isoforms. We demonstrate that the ISA1 and ISA2 are sufficiently well conserved between these species to form heteromultimeric chimeric Arabidopsis/rice isoamylase enzymes. Furthermore, we were able to reconstitute the endosperm-specific rice OsISA1 homomultimeric complex in Arabidopsis isa1isa2 mutants. This homomultimer was able to facilitate normal rates of starch synthesis. The resulting amylopectin structure had small but significant differences in comparison to wild-type Arabidopsis amylopectin. This suggests that ISA1 and ISA2 have a conserved function between plant species with a major role in facilitating the crystallization of pre-amylopectin synthesized by starch synthases and branching enzymes, but also influencing the final structure of amylopectin.
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- Sebastian Streb
- Institute for Agricultural Sciences, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Agricultural Sciences, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Castillo-Valdivia M, López-Montes A, Espejo T, Vílchez J, Blanc R. Identification of starch and determination of its botanical source in ancient manuscripts by MEKC–DAD and LDA. Microchem J 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2013.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Powell PO, Sullivan MA, Sweedman MC, Stapleton DI, Hasjim J, Gilbert RG. Extraction, isolation and characterisation of phytoglycogen from su-1 maize leaves and grain. Carbohydr Polym 2014; 101:423-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2013.09.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Revised: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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O'Neill EC, Rashid AM, Stevenson CEM, Hetru AC, Gunning AP, Rejzek M, Nepogodiev SA, Bornemann S, Lawson DM, Field RA. Sugar-coated sensor chip and nanoparticle surfaces for the in vitro enzymatic synthesis of starch-like materials. Chem Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c3sc51829a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Gilbert RG, Wu AC, Sullivan MA, Sumarriva GE, Ersch N, Hasjim J. Improving human health through understanding the complex structure of glucose polymers. Anal Bioanal Chem 2013; 405:8969-80. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-013-7129-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2013] [Revised: 06/01/2013] [Accepted: 06/06/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Li X, Jackson P, Rubtsov DV, Faria-Blanc N, Mortimer JC, Turner SR, Krogh KB, Johansen KS, Dupree P. Development and application of a high throughput carbohydrate profiling technique for analyzing plant cell wall polysaccharides and carbohydrate active enzymes. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2013; 6:94. [PMID: 23819705 PMCID: PMC3717103 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-6-94] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2013] [Accepted: 06/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Plant cell wall polysaccharide composition varies substantially between species, organs and genotypes. Knowledge of the structure and composition of these polysaccharides, accompanied by a suite of well characterised glycosyl hydrolases will be important for the success of lignocellulosic biofuels. Current methods used to characterise enzymatically released plant oligosaccharides are relatively slow. RESULTS A method and software was developed allowing the use of a DNA sequencer to profile oligosaccharides derived from plant cell wall polysaccharides (DNA sequencer-Assisted Saccharide analysis in High throughput, DASH). An ABI 3730xl, which can analyse 96 samples simultaneously by capillary electrophoresis, was used to separate fluorophore derivatised reducing mono- and oligo-saccharides from plant cell walls. Using electrophoresis mobility markers, oligosaccharide mobilities were standardised between experiments to enable reproducible oligosaccharide identification. These mobility markers can be flexibly designed to span the mobilities of oligosaccharides under investigation, and they have a fluorescence emission that is distinct from that of the saccharide labelling. Methods for relative and absolute quantitation of oligosaccharides are described. Analysis of a large number of samples is facilitated by the DASHboard software which was developed in parallel. Use of this method was exemplified by comparing xylan structure and content in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants affected in xylan synthesis. The product profiles of specific xylanases were also compared in order to identify enzymes with unusual oligosaccharide products. CONCLUSIONS The DASH method and DASHboard software can be used to carry out large-scale analyses of the compositional variation of plant cell walls and biomass, to compare plants with mutations in plant cell wall synthesis pathways, and to characterise novel carbohydrate active enzymes.
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- Xiaofei Li
- Department of Biochemistry, Building O, Downing Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Building O, Downing Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Building O, Downing Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Building O, Downing Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Building O, Downing Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Building O, Downing Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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Gilbert RG, Witt T, Hasjim J. What Is Being Learned About Starch Properties from Multiple-Level Characterization. Cereal Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1094/cchem-11-12-0141-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Robert G. Gilbert
- Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- Corresponding author. Phone: +61 7 3365 4809. Fax: +61 7 3365 1188. E-mail:
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- Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Wu AC, Morell MK, Gilbert RG. A parameterized model of amylopectin synthesis provides key insights into the synthesis of granular starch. PLoS One 2013; 8:e65768. [PMID: 23762422 PMCID: PMC3676345 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2013] [Accepted: 05/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A core set of genes involved in starch synthesis has been defined by genetic studies, but the complexity of starch biosynthesis has frustrated attempts to elucidate the precise functional roles of the enzymes encoded. The chain-length distribution (CLD) of amylopectin in cereal endosperm is modeled here on the basis that the CLD is produced by concerted actions of three enzyme types: starch synthases, branching and debranching enzymes, including their respective isoforms. The model, together with fitting to experiment, provides four key insights. (1) To generate crystalline starch, defined restrictions on particular ratios of enzymatic activities apply. (2) An independent confirmation of the conclusion, previously reached solely from genetic studies, of the absolute requirement for debranching enzyme in crystalline amylopectin synthesis. (3) The model provides a mechanistic basis for understanding how successive arrays of crystalline lamellae are formed, based on the identification of two independent types of long amylopectin chains, one type remaining in the amorphous lamella, while the other propagates into, and is integral to the formation of, an adjacent crystalline lamella. (4) The model provides a means by which a small number of key parameters defining the core enzymatic activities can be derived from the amylopectin CLD, providing the basis for focusing studies on the enzymatic requirements for generating starches of a particular structure. The modeling approach provides both a new tool to accelerate efforts to understand granular starch biosynthesis and a basis for focusing efforts to manipulate starch structure and functionality using a series of testable predictions based on a robust mechanistic framework.
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- Alex Chi Wu
- Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
- Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agricultural and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Food Futures National Research Flagship, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
- Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agricultural and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Gilbert RG, Besnard DJY, Reeve AJ, Lambrides CJ, Hasjim J. Molecular structure of starch in grains is not affected by common dwarfing genes in rice (sd1) and sorghum (dw3). STARCH-STARKE 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/star.201200257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Yangcheng H, Jiang H, Blanco M, Jane JL. Characterization of normal and waxy corn starch for bioethanol production. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2013; 61:379-386. [PMID: 23241103 DOI: 10.1021/jf305100n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Objectives of this study were to compare ethanol production between normal and waxy corn using a cold fermentation process and to understand effects of starch structures and properties on ethanol production. Ethanol yields positively correlated (p < 0.01) with starch contents of kernels of the normal and waxy corn. The average starch-ethanol conversion efficiency of waxy corn (93.0%) was substantially greater than that of normal corn (88.2%). Waxy corn starch consisted of very little amylose and mostly amylopectin that had a shorter average branch chain length than normal corn amylopectin. Regression analyses showed that average amylopectin branch chain lengths and percentage of long branch chains (DP > 37) of waxy corn starch negatively correlated with the starch hydrolysis rate and the ethanol yield. These results indicated that starch structures and properties of the normal and waxy corn had significant effects on the ethanol yield using a cold fermentation process.
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- Hanyu Yangcheng
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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Wu AC, Witt T, Gilbert RG. Characterization Methods for Starch-Based Materials: State of the Art and Perspectives. Aust J Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1071/ch13397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Improving starch-containing materials, whether food, animal feed, high-tech biomaterials, or engineering plastics, is best done by understanding how biosynthetic processes and any subsequent processing control starch structure, and how this structure controls functional properties. Starch structural characterization is central to this. This review examines how information on the three basic levels of the complex multi-scale structure of starch – individual chains, the branching structure of isolated molecules, and the way these molecules form various crystalline and amorphous arrangements – can be obtained from experiment. The techniques include fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis, multiple-detector size-exclusion chromatography, and various scattering techniques (light, X-ray, and neutron). Some examples are also given to show how these data provide mechanistic insight into how biosynthetic processes control the structure and how the various structural levels control functional properties.
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Physicochemical properties and the fine structure of endosperm starches from brewing suitable japonica-type rice cultivar " Akita-sake-komachi" grown in different years. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.6013/jbrewsocjapan.108.675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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