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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2015

Underpinning Starch Biology with in vitro Studies on Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes and Biosynthetic Glycomaterials.

Ellis C O'Neill, Robert A Field

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ellis C O'NeillDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford , Oxford , UK.
Robert A FieldDepartment of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park , Norwich , UK.
John Innes Centre · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000C0618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Starch makes up more than half of the calories in the human diet and is also a valuable bulk commodity that is used across the food, brewing and distilling, medicines and renewable materials sectors. Despite its importance, our understanding of how plants make starch, and what controls the deposition of this insoluble, polymeric, liquid crystalline material, remains rather limited. Advances are hampered by the challenges inherent in analyzing enzymes that operate across the solid-liquid interface. Glyconanotechnology, in the form of glucan-coated sensor chips and metal nanoparticles, present novel opportunities to address this problem. Herein, we review recent developments aimed at the bottom-up generation and self-assembly of starch-like materials, in order to better understand which enzymes are required for starch granule biogenesis and metabolism.

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glucansnanotechnologyphosphorylaseself-assemblystarchsynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID26442250
PMCPMC4561517
OpenAlexW1859266194

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