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From the following article:
Polysaccharide elasticity governed by chair–boat transitions of the glucopyranose ring
Piotr E. Marszalek, Andres F. Oberhauser, Yuan-Ping Pang and Julio M. Fernandez
Nature 396, 661-664(17 December 1998)
doi:10.1038/25322
Table 1
Ab initio calculation of the separation of glycosidic oxygen atoms during chair–boat transitions
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Figure 1
Force–extension curves for single polysaccharide molecules.
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Figure 2
On cleavage of the pyranose ring, single molecules of amylose, pullulan and dextran display identical elastic behaviour.
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Figure 3
Increased separation of glycosidic oxygen atoms during chair–boat transitions of the glucopyranose ring explains the extensibility of amylose.
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