The structure of gellan in dilute aqueous solution |
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Authors: | Bosco M Miertus S Dentini M Segre A L |
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Affiliation: | Polytech, SCaRL AREA Science Park, Padriciano 99, I-34012 Trieste, Italy. |
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Abstract: | A full assignment of high-field nmr spectra of gellan was obtained in dilute aqueous solution by performing a series of selective one-dimensional nmr experiments. The observed nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs) cannot be interpreted assuming that each sugar residue is intrinsically rigid and in a chair conformation. In fact, the rhamnose residue gives strong NOE contacts coherent only with an equilibrium involving both a chair as well as a boat (or a hemiboat) conformation. Molecular dynamic calculations performed on a heptamer with a central rhamnose support the above finding, and show a structure based on a very stiff single chain in which it is present a flipping of the rhamnose residue. At low temperatures (5-20 degrees C) in very dilute solutions (0.018 mg/mL) nmr spectra show a splitting of the resonance due to the methyl group of rhamnose residue, thus confirming the presence of a slow equilibrium among different conformers. |
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