INVESTIGADORES
GOMEZ CASATI Diego Fabian
artículos
Título:
Starch metabolism in green algae
Autor/es:
BUSI, M. V.; MARTIN, M.; DIEGO FABIAN GOMEZ CASATI
Revista:
STARCH/STARKE
Editorial:
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
Referencias:
Lugar: Weinheim; Año: 2014 vol. 66 p. 28 - 40
ISSN:
0038-9056
Resumen:
Starch plays a central role in the life cycle as one of the principal sources of chemicalenergy. This polysaccharide accumulates in plastids in green algae and land plants, andboth organisms have acquired various enzyme isoforms for each step of the metabolicpathway. Eukaryotic green microalgae present the critical photosynthetic functions ashigher plants. However, due to the small size of their genome, gene redundancy isdecreased, a feature that makes them an excellent model for investigating the propertiesof photosynthetic physiology.In the last decade, there has been an increasing demand for starch in many industrialprocesses, such as food, pharmaceutical and bioethanol production. Thus, a betterunderstanding of starch biosynthesis, in particular the structure?function relationshipand regulatory properties of the enzymes involved in its production may provide apowerful tool for the planning of new strategies to increase plant biomass, as well as toimprove the quality and quantity of this polymer
