Production of tailor made short chain amylose-lipid complexes using varying reaction conditions

摘要

When amylose was synthesized using potato phosphorylase in the presence of amylose complexing lipids, monodisperse populations of amylose-lipid complexes were formed. Enzyme dosage and glucose-1-phosphate (glc-l-P)/primer ratio influenced the reaction rate of the enzymic synthesis, presumably by changing the balance between amylose synthesis and amylose-lipid complexation and precipitation, and impacted the molecular weight of the complexes. Lipid characteristics affected the dissociation properties and amylose chain lengths of the amylose-lipid complexes presumably by determining the minimal amylose chain length necessary for complexation and precipitation. Tailor made short chain amylose-lipid complexes can hence be produced by choosing the appropriate reaction conditions. We propose a synthesis mechanism in which the primer is elongated until an amylose chain is obtained which is of sufficient length to complex a first lipid. Further chain extension then occurs, together with subsequent complexation until the complex becomes insoluble and precipitates.