Description and references

Found widely in both plants and animals. In plants it is the immediate precursor of starch, and in animals of glycogen, being also the first product in the breakdown and utilization of these substances. Isoln from muscle and synthesis using trisilver phosphate: Cori et al., J. Biol. Chem. 121, 465 (1937); Krahl, Cori, Biochem. Prep. 1, 33 (1949). Prepn from α-acetobromglucose + silver diphenyl phosphate: Posternak, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 72, 4824 (1950); by phosphorolysis of starch using phosphorylase and orthophosphate: McCready, Hassid, Biochem. Prep. 4, 63 (1955). Structure: Wolfrom, Pletcher, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 63, 1050 (1941). Configuration: Wolfrom et al., ibid. 64, 23 (1942); Harmon, Diss. Abstr. 24, 4400 (1964); Beevers, Maconochie, Acta Crystallogr. 18, 232 (1965).

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