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A Comparison of the Action of Purified Maltase-free Alpha Amylase from Malted Barley upon Corn Amylose, Corn Starch and upon Beta Dextrins Formed from Corn Starch by the Action of Beta Amylase (Data of Myrbdck and Thorsellu)... 

An interesting comparison is also given in Table XI86 of the action of malted barley alpha amylase upon corn starch, beta dextrins obtained from corn starch by the action of beta amylase, and upon corn amylose prepared according to the method of Meyer.6 90 These data show that, with equivalent amounts of enzyme, amylose was hydrolyzed much more rapidly and more extensively than unfractionated corn starch. Although the beta dextrins were hydrolyzed by this amylase, they were hydrolyzed much more slowly and less extensively than either of the other two substrates. These results are similar to those already considered for pancreatic amylase.41 64... 

Products.—Considerable information concerning the mechanism of the enzymic hydrolysis of starch has been obtained from investigations of the action of purified maltase-free pancreatic amylase on a number of different substrates. The substrates studied were ordinary unfractionated but exhaustively defatted10 potato and com starches a branched chain substrate, waxy maize starch and amylose, the linear component of corn starch.41 69 eo f4 These investigations included comparisons not only of the rates of the hydrolysis of the different substrates but also of the products formed from them. 

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