title: Probing acceptor specificity in the glycogen synthase reaction with polymer-bound oligosaccharides.
abstract: Polymers having maltose and maltotriose side-chains were synthesized by attaching 4-carboxy-2-nitrobenzyl 4-O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside or 4-carboxy-2-nitrobenzyl O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----4)-O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-O-beta-D- glucopyranoside, respectively, to aminoethyl-substituted polyacrylamide gel beads. Subsequently, the two polymers, and analogous polymers having D-glucose and cellobiose side-chains, served in a comparative study as acceptors in the glycogen synthase (UDP-D-glucose: glycogen 4-alpha-glucosyltransferase, EC 2.4.1.11) reaction. Highest transfer (4.2%) was observed for the polymer bearing maltotriose groups. The bound saccharides were then removed by irradiation (greater than 320 nm), and examination of them demonstrated that alpha-D-glucosyl oligomerization in the glycogen synthase reaction had occurred.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D006006:Glycogen Synthase / Q000378:metabolism*; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides; D006006:Glycogen Synthase