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SUBMITTER: Chandrasekharan NP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7137110 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chandrasekharan Nithesh P NP Ravenburg Claire M CM Roy Ian R IR Monroe Jonathan D JD Berndsen Christopher E CE
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology 20200325 Pt 4
Starch is a key energy-storage molecule in plants that requires controlled synthesis and breakdown for effective plant growth. β-Amylases (BAMs) hydrolyze starch into maltose to help to meet the metabolic needs of the plant. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana there are nine BAMs, which have apparently distinct functional and domain structures, although the functions of only a few of the BAMs are known and there are no 3D structures of BAMs from this organism. Recently, AtBAM2 was proposed t ...[more]