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. 1995 Feb 14;92(4):964–967. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.4.964

Maize branching enzyme catalyzes synthesis of glycogen-like polysaccharide in glgB-deficient Escherichia coli.

H Guan 1, T Kuriki 1, M Sivak 1, J Preiss 1
PMCID: PMC42617  PMID: 7862674

Abstract

The structure of alpha-glucan, isolated from wild-type Escherichia coli B, a glycogen branching enzyme (BE)-deficient E. coli AC71 (glgB-), or from AC71 transformed with genes coding for maize BEI and BEII individually as well as with both genes, was analyzed by high-performance anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) with pulsed amperometric detection. Transformation of the maize BE gene(s) in AC71 (glgB-) showed complementation in branching activity. Analysis by HPAEC revealed different structures between glycogen of E. coli B and alpha-glucan of AC71 transformed with a different maize BE gene(s). The individual chains of the alpha-glucan debranched with isoamylase were distributed between chain length (CL) 3 and > 30 and the chain with CL 6 was the most abundant. In comparison with the glycogen of E. coli B, the alpha-glucan of AC71 transformed with the maize BE gene(s) consisted of a lesser amount of chains with CL 7-9 and a larger amount of chains with CL > 14. It also showed a broad peak with chains of CL 9-12 as in maize amylopectin. This study provides in vivo evidence that glycogen BE and maize BE isozymes may have different specificities in the length of chain transferred. Furthermore, this study suggests that the specificity of glycogen synthase and starch synthase and their concerted action with BE play an important role in determining the structure of the polysaccharide synthesized.

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