Determination of the diadic composition of alginate by means of circular dichroism:: a fast and accurate improved method

被引:32
作者
Donati, I [1 ]
Gamini, A [1 ]
Skjåk-Bræk, G [1 ]
Vetere, A [1 ]
Campa, C [1 ]
Coslovi, A [1 ]
Paoletti, S [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Trieste, Dept Biochem Biophys & Macromol Chem, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
关键词
alginate; circular dichroism; diads; sugar composition;
D O I
10.1016/S0008-6215(03)00094-6
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Circular dichroism (CD) is presented as a reliable and sensitive method of determining the diadic frequency composition of alginate (F-GG, F-MM and FGM + MG). The availability of samples, very largely or even completely conforming to the limiting structures of polymannuronate (MM)(n), polyguluronate (GG)(n) and polyalternating MG (MG)(n), respectively, allowed the limiting CD spectra for each alginate diad to be obtained. These showed very different CD behaviour, thus pointing out the crucial importance of the neighbouring residue in chiroptical properties. Using an iterative best-fit procedure, the diadic composition of commercial alginates could be obtained from their respective CD spectra by means of a linear combination of the spectra of the three limiting diads. The results were found in excellent agreement with the composition parameters obtained by H-1 NMR spectroscopy. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1139 / 1142
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