D-Glucan biosynthesis

Li X, Burton R.A., Harvey A.X., Hrmova M., Wardak A.Z., Stone B.A., and Fincher G.B. 2003. Biochemical evidence linking a putative callose synthase gene with (1 3)-P-D-glucan biosynthesis in barley. Plant Mol Biol 53 213-225. 

Another problem for biosynthesis concerns the fact that certain other, native plant-polysaccharides, most notably the xyloglucans found in higher-plant cell-walls,6 contain backbone structures of (1— 4)-/3-D-glucan, and it is necessary to consider whether separate enzymes synthesize these structures, and, if so, whether these enzymes could be confused with enzymes specifically involved in the synthesis of cellulose. 

Baecker, P. A., Greenberg, E., and Preiss, J. 1986. Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen Primary structure of Escherichia coli 1,4-a-D-glucan 1,4-a-D-glucan 6-a-D-(glucano)-transferase as deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the glgB gene. J. Biol. Chem. 261,8738-8743. 

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