Storage carbohydrates

Lewis, D.H. (1984). Occurrence and distribution of storage carbohydrates in vascular plants. In Storage Carbohydrates in Vascular Plants, ed. D.H. Lewis, pp. 1-32. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Storage carbohydrates in vascular plants. Edited by D.H. Lewis... 

As insects and certain other organisms utilize a,a-trehalose (a-D-glucopy-ranosyl a-D-glucopyranoside) as their storage carbohydrate, and rely on trehalase to release o-glucose, deoxyfluoro derivatives of trehalose may be... 

Glycogen is the major storage carbohydrate in animals, corresponding to starch in plants it is a branched polymer of a-D-glucose. It occurs mainly in liver (up to 6%) and muscle, where it rarely exceeds 1%. However, because of its greater mass, muscle contains about three to four times as much glycogen as does liver (Table 18—1). 

Richardson s interest in these trehalose epoxides stemmed from his desire to prepare a wide range of modified trehalose analogues for evaluation as inhibitors of the trehalase of insects, as trehalose is known to be the storage carbohydrate of many insects and good inhibitors of this processing enzyme could potentially function as green insecticides. 

Phosphorylase Converts Storage Carbohydrates to Glucose Phosphate... 

Stachyose and its homologs primarily occur in seeds and storage organs. Later research showed the presence of these oligosaccharides in the leaves of several plants,184 where they accumulate, especially during the winter, at a concentration parallel to that of sucrose. At this concentration, they provide frost resistance to the plant (see Section II,2,f) rather than serving as storage carbohydrates. 

Carbohydrates, like glucose, are not synthesized de novo by parasitic flatworms, and gluconeogenesis has never been demonstrated except from intermediates at the level of triose phosphates (Bryant and Behm, 1989). Simple carbohydrates are obtained from the host and are then used by the parasite to synthesize complex ones, for instance, production of the glycocalyx glycoproteins or the synthesis of glycogen, the storage carbohydrate used by all parasitic flatworms. 

Starch is a polymer of D-glucose and is found as a storage carbohydrate in plants. It occurs as small granules with the size range and appearance characteristic to each plant species. The granules can be shown by ordi-... 

Brinson, K., and Dey. P. M. 1985. Polysaccharides containing xylose, arabinose, and galactose in higher plants. In Biochemistry of Storage Carbohydrates in Green Plants (P. M. Dey and R. A. Dixon, eds.). pp. 349-371. Academic Press, New York. 

The further metabolism of pyruvate or PEP is still under investigation. Increasing support is available for the view that the C3 residue from decarboxylation is converted, by a reversal of glycolysis, into a storage carbohydrate which later serves... 

Planteose is a trisaccharide comprising sucrose and galactose (0-a-D-galactopyranosyl-(1 6)-0-/3-D-fructofuranosyl-(2— l)-a-D-glucopyranoside) that is found in certain plants. It acts as a short-term storage carbohydrate in Actinidia leaves [59]. 

Dixon RA (1985) /i-(l—>3)-Linked glucans from higher plants. In Dey PM, Dixon RA (eds) Biochemistry of storage carbohydrates in green plants. Academic Press, London, chap 6... 

Starch is the polysaccharide that plants use for storing energy. Many animals make use of a similar energy-storage carbohydrate called glycogen. It is often stored in muscle tissue as an energy source. 

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