Enzymology of complex alpha-glucans / editor, Felix Nitschke, Assistant Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, Dallas, TX, USA.

"A science publishers book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Morphological and Structural Aspects of alpha-Glucan Particles from Electron Microscopy Observations / Jean-Luc Putaux -- Polarimetric Nonlinear Microscopy of Starch Granules Visualization of the Structural Order of alpha-Glucan Chains within a Native Starch Particle / Danielle Tokarz, Richard Cisek, and Virginijus Barzda -- Analyses of Covalent Modifications in alpha-Glucans / Felix Nitschke and Peter Schmieder -- Storage Polysaccharide Metabolism in Micro-Organisms / Christophe Colleoni -- Mammalian Glycogen Metabolism : Enzymology, Regulation, and Animal Models of Dysregulated Glycogen Metabolism / Bartholomew A. Pederson -- The Pathologies of a Dysfunctional Glycogen Metabolism / Mitchell A. Sullivan, Berge A. Minassian, and Felix Nitschke -- Reversible Phosphorylation in Glycogen and Starch / Katherine J. Donohue, Andrea Kuchtova, Craig W. Vander Kooi, and Matthew S. Gentry -- Starch Granules and their Glucan Components / Eric Bertoft -- Regulation of Assimilatory Starch Metabolism by Cellular Carbohydrate Status / Maria Grazia Annunziata and John Edward Lunn -- Reserve Starch Metabolism / Yasunori Nakamura -- Heteromeric Protein Interactions in Starch Synthesis / Michael J. Emes, Gregory J. MacNeill, and Ian J. Tetlow.

"In all living systems various polyglycans exist having essential functions that are closely linked to glycan structures. All structural features of glycans are mediated by kinetic properties of glycan synthesizing enzymes. Glycan-related enzymes often non-covalently bind to the carbohydrate substrate(s) by regions different from the active site. Removal of these binding sites often strongly affects carbohydrate specifics of the enzyme. The book describes recent progress in polyglycan-related enzymology. It covers kinetic features of enzymes and reactions, metabolic paths, the reversible formation of glycan-related enzyme complexes and procedures used for structural analyses of polyglycans"-- Provided by publisher.