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Mesoscale modelling of starch digestion
- Abstract:
- An idealised mesoscale model of the enzymatic digestion of starch modelled as a polymer aggregate is used to study the effect of various enzyme properties, such as the enzyme efficiency, range and radius, on the rate at which monomers are released from the aggregate. Depending on the enzyme efficiency the process is found to be either reaction- or diffusion-limited. Additionally the digestion rate is found to be proportional to the volume around each bond that is accessible to the enzyme, which is determined by the range and radius of the enzyme. Simulations of uniformly mixed susceptible and resistant polymers reveal no significant effect on the digestion of the susceptible polymers due to the presence of the resistant polymers.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/00268976.2024.2445770
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- https://ror.org/00cwqg982
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Molecular Physics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 123
- Issue:
- 15
- Article number:
- e2445770
- Publication date:
- 2025-01-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-12-16
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1362-3028
- ISSN:
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0026-8976
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English
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2078531
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pubs:2078531
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- van der Laan et al.
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- 2025
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- © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use,distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the AcceptedManuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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