2 Flashcards
More than 10 sugar units
For storage (__ in plants, ___ in animals), and for structure (___,___)
Polysaccharides
Starch, glycogen
Chitin, cellulose
Made of one type of sugar only
Used in dusting powder, tablet filler, binder, disintegrant, antidote to I2 poisoning
Hokoglycans/ homopolysaccharides
Temporary storage form of photosynthetic products in plants
Starch (glucosan)
Scientific names of:
Corn grain
Potato tubers
Wheat grain
Zea mays
Solanum tuberosum
Triticum aestivum
Paste forming property of starch
Amylopectin
Prop of starch that is soluble in water
Amylose
Deep blue in iodine test
Amylose
Branching therefore a-1,4 & a-1,6 bonds
Amylopectin
Enzyme in pancreatic juice (1) & saliva (2)
Alpha-amylases (1) amylopsin (2) ptyalin
End product is a mix if glucose, maltose, amylopectin
A-amylase
Remove maltose unit from non-reducing end of polysaccharides
Branching points: maltose & dextrins (incomplete hydrolysis)
B-amylases
End product is nearly pure maltose
B-amylase
Starch processed to rupture all or part of granules in the presence of water; used as tablet excipient
Pregelatinized starch
used as Tablet disintegrant
Sodium starch glycolate
Semisynthetic material used as plasma expander (6%); 90% amylopectin
Hetastarch