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Enzymatically Synthesized Polysaccharides and Disaccharides

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Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products / Progrès Dans La Chimie Des Substances Organiques Naturelles

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It is known that enzymes in living cells are capable of synthesizing complex carbohydrates from monosaccharides such as glucose or fructose. Numerous polysaccharides among which cellulose, pectin or gums and oligosaccharides which include sucrose, trehalose, raffinose are thus produced by plants; glycogen, mucoproteins and lactose are synthesized by animals. A great number and variety of diverse polysaccharides are also synthesized by bacteria and fungi. It is of interest that the bacterium, Acetobacter xylinum, when grown with hexoses, sugar alcohols, or glycerol produces a polysaccharide consisting of D-glucose joined by 1,4-β-glucosidic linkages identical with plant cellulose (2). Various species of Leuconostoc also produce polysaccharides consisting of D-glucose units, but these differ structurally from cellulose in that the glucose units are mutually joined through 1,6-α-glucosidic linkages (26, 73, 20, 37).

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Hassid, W.Z., Doudoroff, M. (1948). Enzymatically Synthesized Polysaccharides and Disaccharides. In: Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products / Progrès Dans La Chimie Des Substances Organiques Naturelles. Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products / Progrès Dans La Chimie Des Substances Organiques Naturelles, vol 5. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7179-0_5

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