Abstract
When erythro-amylose is split by pancreatic amylase there appears a product which stops hydrolysis short of completion. When isolated, it had the properties of a hexaose and could be split by amylase but not by maltase; the cleavage products were maltose and glucosides. It melted with decomposition between 258 and 263[degree] and gave no color with iodine. Amylo-hexaose with the same properties was obtained from starch from Oryza glutinosa. This hexaose was broken up by either [alpha]- or [beta]-amylase and the products indicated the presence of both [alpha]- and [beta]-compounds in the hexaose. It corresponds to a polyose from cellulose and seems to prove the chain structure of starch.

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