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When potato sprouts or potato tuber slices were incubated with 0.1 m glucose 1-phosphate, a soluble amylopectin-like polysaccharide was excreted to the medium. This polysaccharide was found to be a very good primer for phosphorylase and a poor one for starch synthetase. Beside the formation of this extracellular polysaccharide, a more branched intracellular polysaccharide could be isolated. This polysaccharide was an excellent primer for starch synthetase. Fructose 6-phosphate, glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-diphosphate, glucose or sucrose could not substitute for glucose 1-phosphate. 2,4-Dinitrophenol or nitrogen did not affect the excretion of the polysaccharide. Some properties of these 2 polysaccharides are described.

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Formation of a Soluble Amylopectin-Like Polysaccharide in Potato Tubers <sup><a href="#fn1" rid="fn1" class=" fn">1</a></sup>

R Frydman

C Cardini

Abstract

When potato sprouts or potato tuber slices were incubated with 0.1 m glucose 1-phosphate, a soluble amylopectin-like polysaccharide was excreted to the medium. This polysaccharide was found to be a very good primer for phosphorylase and a poor one for starch synthetase. Beside the formation of this extracellular polysaccharide, a more branched intracellular polysaccharide could be isolated. This polysaccharide was an excellent primer for starch synthetase. Fructose 6-phosphate, glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-diphosphate, glucose or sucrose could not substitute for glucose 1-phosphate. 2,4-Dinitrophenol or nitrogen did not affect the excretion of the polysaccharide. Some properties of these 2 polysaccharides are described.

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Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquimicas “Fundacion Campomar” and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Obligado 2490, Buenos Aires (28), Republica Argentina

^{Career investigator of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (R. Argentina).}

^{This investigation was supported in part by a research grant (GM-03442) from the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, by the Rockefeller Foundation and by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (R. Argentina).}

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Abstract

When potato sprouts or potato tuber slices were incubated with 0.1 m glucose 1-phosphate, a soluble amylopectin-like polysaccharide was excreted to the medium. This polysaccharide was found to be a very good primer for phosphorylase and a poor one for starch synthetase. Beside the formation of this extracellular polysaccharide, a more branched intracellular polysaccharide could be isolated. This polysaccharide was an excellent primer for starch synthetase. Fructose 6-phosphate, glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-diphosphate, glucose or sucrose could not substitute for glucose 1-phosphate. 2,4-Dinitrophenol or nitrogen did not affect the excretion of the polysaccharide. Some properties of these 2 polysaccharides are described.

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