Preparation and biodegradability of chitin derivatives having mercapto groups |
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Authors: | Keisuke Kurita Hitoshi Yoshino Shin-Ichiro Nishimura Shigeru Ishii |
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Affiliation: | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire de Biochimie et Technologie des Glucides, Centre de Recherche Agroalimentaire, Rue de la Géraudière, BP 527, 44026, Nantes Cédex 03, France |
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Abstract: | Cell walls of glasswort (Salicornia ramosissima Woods), a halophytic Chenopodiaceae, prepared as alcohol-insoluble solids, were found to be rich in arabinose, galacturonic acid, glucose and proteins, and contained 0·7% ferulic acid and 3·8% acetic acid. Pectic and hemicellulosic polysaccharides were extracted by cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid, hot dilute acid, cold dilute alkali and concentrated alkali (twice), with yields of 2·9, 19·1, 4·7, 7·4 and 1·9% of the alcohol-insoluble solids, respectively. Protein-rich material precipitated upon dialysis. The dialysed fractions were fractionated by ion-exchange chromatography, and the main fractions were analysed by gel-filtration and glycosyl linkage analysis. The hot acid extract contained 46·2% arabinose and 28·9% galacturonic acid, with high degrees of methylation and acetylation (65 and 45, respectively). It could be fractionated into a low-molecular-weight arabinan rich in ferulic acid, and a pectic fraction still relatively rich in neutral sugars. The concentrated alkali extracts were rich in xylose (33·4 and 23·6%, respectively). They were separated by ion-exchange chromatography into a fucogalactoxyloglucan and a glucuronoarabinoxylan. |
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