Arabinoxylans consisting of more than 90% of arabinose and xylose were extracted from water-in-soluble cell wall material of dehusked barley grain, and degraded with a purified endo-(1→4)-β-d-xylanase from Aspergillus awamori. Twelve of the oligosaccharide fragments released were isolated by a combination of size-exclusion and anion-exchange chromatography, and their structures were determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The oligosaccharides identified consisted of (1→4)-linked β-d-xylopyranosyl residues, some of which were substituted at O-2, at O-3, or at both O-2 and O-3, with α-l-arabinofuranosyl groups. Two new structures, a tetrasaccharide and a pentasaccharide, both containing terminal 2-O-arabinofuranosylxylopyranose as a structural element are described.
NCBI PubMed ID: 8180986Publication DOI: 10.1016/0008-6215(94)84257-4Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Institutions: Bijvoet Center, Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Food Science, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, TNO Biotechnology and Chemistry Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Physical Chemistry, AJ Zeist, The Netherlands
Methods: 1H NMR, gel filtration, HPAEC, enzymatic digestion