Resistant starch type 3 (RS-3) holds great potential as a prebiotic by supporting gut microbiota following intestinal digestion. However the factors influencing digestibility of RS-3 are largely unknown. This research aims to reveal how crystal and molecular weight (distribution) influence its resistance. Narrow polydisperse ?-glucans degree polymerization (DP) 14–76, either obtained enzymatic ...

Bacterial levan has gained an increasing interest over the last decades due to its unique characteristics and multiple possible applications. Levan and other exopolysaccharides (EPSs) production are usually optimized to obtain the highest concentration or yield while a possible change of the molecular size and mass during the production process is mostly neglected. In this study, the molar mass...

The distribution of tissue polypeptide antigen (40 kD molecular weight) in normal adult and fetal liver, and in liver disease was investigated and compared with the distribution of low and high molecular weight cytokeratins. In normal liver tissue polypeptide antigen was found only in bile duct epithelium; this distribution is similar to that of high molecular weight cytokeratin, but differs fr...

A novel method is presented for the calculation of weight chain length distribution in free radical polymerization of vinyl monomers. In the proposed method, polymerization kinetic equations and molecular weight moment equations are used in conjunction with a function that defines the weight fraction of polymer in a finite chain length interval. The entire range of molecular weight is divided i...

Let (R, μ) be a nonatomic finite measure space and E = Lr(R, μ) a Lebesgue space over R. Then we consider tempered distributions f and g (depending on x ∈ Rn and v ∈ R), for which divx(af) = g in S′(Rn, E). Here a : R −→ Rn is a bounded function of v (a velocity field) satisfying a nondegeneracy condition. We study the regularity of the average f̄ = R R f(·, v)ψ(v) dμ(v) ∈ S′(Rn) (with ψ ∈ Lr (R...

A novel protein-bound polysaccharide, CFPS-1, isolated from Corbicula fluminea, is composed predominantly of mannose (Man) and glucose (Glc) in a molar ratio of 3.1:12.7. The polysaccharide, with an average molecular weight of about 283 kDa, also contains 10.8% protein. Atomic force microscopy, high-performance liquid chromatography, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, gas chromatography/m...