DISTRIBUTION OF D-GALACTOSYL GROUPS IN GUARAN AND LOCUST-BEAN GUM - NEW EVIDENCE FROM PERIODATE OXIDATION

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作者
PAINTER, TJ
GONZALEZ, JJ
HEMMER, PC
机构
[1] AGDER INGN & DIST HGSK,N-4890 GRIMSTAD,NORWAY
[2] INST TEORET FYS,N-7034 TRONDHEIM NTH,NORWAY
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10.1016/S0008-6215(00)85766-3
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A detailed theoretical analysis of the kinetics of the periodate oxidation of guaran and locust-bean gum, together with the results of methylation analyses carried out by Lindberg's group on partially oxidised and barohydride-reduced samples of the galactomannans, has provided new evidence for the arrangement of the α-d-galactopyranosyl side-groups along the mannan chains. The results indicate that, in guaran, the d-galactosyl groups are arranged in small groups of mostly two to four units, attached to contiguous d-mannosyl residues in the chains. These are separated mostly by small groups of two, or occasionally three, contiguous, unsubstituted d-mannosyl residues. In locust-bean gum, there are long blocks of contiguous, unsubstituted d-mannosyl residues, long blocks in which every second d-mannosyl residue is substituted with d-galactose, and shorter blocks in which there is a high density of d-galactosyl groups. © 1979.
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页码:217 / 226
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