Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota, Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota, Basidiomycota)
Organ / tissue: cell wallAssociated disease: infection due to Candida [ICD11:
XN3CL 
];
infection due to Trichosporon [ICD11:
XN766 ]
NCBI PubMed ID: 8503147Journal NLM ID: 0364311Institutions: Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
β-D-glucan is an essential component of the cell wall of fungi. We measured its concentration in the urine of patients with funguria using the chromogenic endotoxin assay kits, Toxicolor and Endospecy. These assay systems use the same Limulus coagulation enzymes. Since the Endospecy test detects endotoxin but not factor G, which is activated by β-D-glucan, the β-D-glucan concentration can be calculated by subtracting the Endospecy value from the Toxicolor value. Concentrations of β-D-glucan were found to be significantly higher in urine samples from patients with funguria (> or = 10(3) colony-forming units/ml) than in non-infected samples.
Structure type: homopolymer ; n is large
Trivial name: β-1,3-glucan, pachyman, curdlan, SSG
Compound class: EPS, glucan, cell wall glucn, cell wall glucan, cell wall glucoprotein
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_1397514,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_153543,IEDB_158555,IEDB_161166,IEDB_2278476,IEDB_2278477,IEDB_558869,IEDB_857743,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Related record ID(s): 20152, 103899, 106266, 110076, 110100, 110138, 111873, 111972, 111976, 112990, 118123, 125281, 125854, 126051, 130953, 130960, 130963, 139820, 139829, 141508
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 5475,
5552Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G51056AN, GlycomeDB:
157, CCSD:
50422, CBank-STR:4225
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