Taxonomic group: fungi / Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Basidiomycota)
Organ / tissue: fruiting body
The structure was elucidated in this paperPublication DOI: 10.1016/0008-6215(83)88482-1Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Institutions: Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
The defatted fruit-body of G. frondosa was successively extracted with water and 10% aqueous zinc chloride in an autoclave. The polysaccharide (F4) extracted with the zinc chloride solution had [α]D +7.9° (c 0.3, 4% sodium hydroxide) and was composed of β-D-glucose. From the results of methylation study, Smith degradation, and enzymic hydrolysis, it was concluded that F4 is a polysaccharide composed of a backbone of β-(1→3)-linked d-glucopyranosyl residues, and possessed of a single β-D-glucopyranosyl group joined through O-6 of every third d-glucopyranosyl residue of the backbone. The molecular weight was determined by gel filtration to be 140,000.
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit ; 140000
Location inside paper: F4, abstract
Trivial name: Grifolan LE
Compound class: glucan
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_1397514,IEDB_141806,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_153543,IEDB_158555,IEDB_161166,IEDB_241101,IEDB_558869,IEDB_857743,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Methods: gel filtration, periodate oxidation, methylation analysis, reduction with NaBH4, S Smith degradation, exo-β-1, 3-glucanase hydrolysis
Comments, role: C6-branched branched β-1,3-glucan at every 3 residues
Related record ID(s): 43069, 43070, 43074
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 5627Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G66305IS
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