Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
Organ / tissue: cell wall
NCBI PubMed ID: 21830869Publication DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2011.601994Journal NLM ID: 101189458Publisher: London: Informa Healthcare
Correspondence: david_miller
carleton.ca
Institutions: Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paracel Laboratory Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
This study examined the response of various forms and sources of glucans toward two different Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) methods, the modified LAL, and Glucatell. The glucans studied were curdlan, laminarin, yeast glucan, barley glucan, paramylon, pullulan, pustulan, mannan, and pachyman (as part of the Glucatell kit). Both methods provided largely similar results for each of the glucans; however, the Glucatell method yielded slightly higher responses to certain structures that may not necessarily be of fungal origin, leading to falsely greater positive results. The performance of each method to measure fungal glucan concentration specifically was then assessed.
glucan, Curdlan, dectin receptor, glucatell, LAL, Limulus amebocyte lysate
Structure type: homopolymer
Location inside paper: p.542, table 1
Trivial name: pustulan, β-1,6-glucan, β-1,6-D-glucan, β(1-6)-D-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, pustulan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, β-(1,6)-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, pustulan, β-1,6-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, pustulan, β-(1→6)-glucan PCPS, water-soluble glucan (PS-I)
Compound class: EPS, O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, glycoprotein, glucan, polysaccharide, cell wall glucoprotein
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135614,IEDB_141806,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_241101,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Methods: HPSEC, spectrophotometry
Comments, role: Calbiochem lot #B46633
Related record ID(s): 43380, 47842, 47843, 48303, 48366, 48412, 48423, 48443, 49291
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 136371Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G26777BZ, GlycomeDB:
863, CCSD:
50854, CBank-STR:4234
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