Taxonomic group: fungi / Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Basidiomycota)
Organ / tissue: fruiting body
NCBI PubMed ID: 5111996Publication DOI: 10.1126/science.174.4007.419Journal NLM ID: 0404511Publisher: Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Institutions: Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, USA
Starch isolated from the fungi Hericium ramosum and Hericium coralloides differs from that of higher plants in that it consists only of short-chain amylose molecules (32 to 45 glucose units long)
starch, amylose, Hericium ramosum, Hericium coralloides
Structure type: homopolymer ; n=32, n=45
Location inside paper: p. 419, column 2, paragraph 1
Trivial name: α-(1,4)-glucan
Compound class: glucan, polysaccharide
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_140629,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_420417,IEDB_420418,IEDB_420421,IEDB_857742,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Methods: enzymatic digestion, extraction, chromatography, precipitation, spectrophotometry
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 100756Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G05740LL
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There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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