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Revision as of 12:21, 16 September 2015

House of Carbs

3D Modelling Overview

We built 3D models to see how changing parameters such as branching degree and the number of tiers affect the overall structure of the molecule in a chemically accurate way.

Glycogen

Glycogen is a polysaccharide composed of glucose units linked by alpha-1,4 glycosidic bonds. Each linear chain contains approximately 13 glucose residues and a number of alpha 1-6 glycosidic bonds, which allow branching, that are 3–4 residues apart.

This simple model - created for our wiki by the SWEET software - shows a small section of a glycogen molecule consisting of 91 glucose units which are contained within 7 branches and 3 tiers. The 1,4 linked sections can be seen to coil into a helical shape, and the 1,6 linkages form helical branches away from the centre of the molecule.

You can interact with the model using your mouse.

3D Printing Gallery

References

http://www.biotopics.co.uk/jsmol/glycogen.html

http://watcut.uwaterloo.ca/webnotes/Metabolism/glycogenStructure.html.

http://www.glycosciences.de/modeling/sweet2/doc/index.php

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