amylose

Amylose is a polysaccharide composed of α-D-glucose units linked by α(1→4) glycosidic bonds, accounting for about 20% of the total amount of starch. Amylose spatial conformation curls into a helix and forms a blue complex with iodine, which is widely used in the food industry, and can be used in a variety of researches as a natural product and a biochemical reagent.

Amylose azure is a reagent used in biochemical reactions.

Amylopectin is a highly branched polysaccharide based on glucose. It forms starch together with amylose. The glycosidic bond of amylopectin is α- Glucan chain α- 1, 4 and branching points α- 1,6.

ADP-Glucose (ADPG) is an immediate precursor used in the biosynthesis, by glucose addition, of storage polysaccharides in plants, green algae, and cyanobacteria, as well as structural polysaccharides in certain bacteria.[1],[2] It is used by amylose synthases or starch synthases in plastids in the production of amylose, amylopectins, starch, and other polysaccharides. ADPG is normally generated within plastids, although it can be biosynthesized in the cytoplasm of certain grasses and imported into plastids by a membrane-bound transporter.[3]