Recent progress in the structure of glycogen serving as a durable energy reserve in bacteria

Authors/Creators

Liang Wang
Mengmeng Wang
Michael Wise
Qinghua Liu
Ting Yang
Zuobin Zhu
Chengcheng Li
Xinle Tan
Daoquan Tang
Wei Wang, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Abstract

Glycogen is conventionally considered as a transient energy reserve that can be rapidly synthesized for glucose accumulation and mobilized for ATP production. However, this conception is not completely applicable to prokaryotes due to glycogen structural heterogeneity. A number of studies noticed that glycogen with small average chain length gc in bacteria has the potential to degrade slowly, which might prolong bacterial environment survival. This phenomenon was previously examined and later formulated as the durable energy storage mechanism hypothesis. Although recent research has been warming to the hypothesis, experimental validation is still missing at current stage. In this review, we summarized recent progress of the hypothesis, provided a supporting mathematical model, and explored the technical pitfalls that shall be avoided in glycogen study.

RAS ID

30449

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2020

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

Copyright

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Publisher

Springer

Comments

Wang, L., Wang, M., Wise, M. J., Liu, Q., Yang, T., Zhu, Z., ... Wang, W. (2020). Recent progress in the structure of glycogen serving as a durable energy reserve in bacteria. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 36(14). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-019-2795-6

Recommended Citation

Wang, L., Wang, M., Wise, M., Liu, Q., Yang, T., Zhu, Z., Li, C., Tan, X., Tang, D., & Wang, W. (2020). Recent progress in the structure of glycogen serving as a durable energy reserve in bacteria. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-019-2795-6