Whereas Glc is stored in small-sized hydrosoluble glycogen particles in archaea, eubacteria, fungi, and animal cells, photosynthetic eukaryotes have resorted to building starch, which is composed of several distinct polysaccharide fractions packed into a highly organized semicrystalline granule. In plants, both the initiation of polysaccharide synthesis and the nucleation mechanism leading to f...

Petroleum ether (60 degrees-80 degrees C), chloroform, acetone, ethanol, aqueous and crude hot water extracts of the whole plant of C. dactylon and the two fractions of aqueous extract were tested for antihyperglycaemic activity in glucose overloaded hyperglycemic rats and in alloxan induced diabetic model at two-dose levels, 200 and 400 mg/kg (po) respectively. The aqueous extract of C. dactyl...

This study was to examine the effects of yeast extract (YE) and its fractions (YE1 and YE2) on the growth and diepoxin ζ (a spirobisnaphthalene with a diversity of bioactivities) production in liquid culture of Berkleasmium-like endophytic fungus Dzf12 from Dioscorea zingiberensis. When YE was applied to the liquid medium at 10 g/L on day 3 of culture, the diepoxin ζ production was most effecti...

Microsomes from embryonic cartilage have been subfractionated to yield smooth microsomes and rough microsomes. The in vitro enzymic activities involved in chondroitin sulfate biosynthesis have been assayed in these subfractions. The results demonstrate that all of the activities necessary for linkage to protein as well as for completion of the polysaccharide chain are present in both the rough ...

The formation of cellular polysaccharide by cells of the genus Brucella has been reported by several investigators: Favilli and Biancalani (1934), Higginbotham and Heathman (1936), and Libby and Joyner (1941). These workers, however, dealt mainly with the immunological characteristics of the polysaccharide, and little emphasis was placed upon the nutritional conditions affecting its production....

Rat skin heparin proteoglycan labelled biosynthetically with 35S was fractionated on a column of antithrombin-Sepharose into fractions with varying degrees of affinity for antithrombin. These were treated with NaOH to release heparin chains (Mr 60,000-100,000), by beta-elimination or incubated with serum to produce fragments of the same order of size as commercial heparin (Mr 5000-30,000), by e...

1. The immune precipitate formed by antipneumococcus horse serum and the specific polysaccharide is not hydrolyzed by trypsin as is the diphtheria toxin-antitoxin complex, and purified pneumococcus antibody cannot be isolated by the method used for the isolation and crystallization of diphtheria antitoxin. 2. Type I pneumococcus antibody, completely precipitable by Type I polysaccharide, may be...

Pinus koraiensis polysaccharides (PKP) were extracted by hot water from P. koraiensis pine cones. Five polysaccharide fractions named PKP-A, PKP-B, PKP-C, PKP-D and PKP-E were successfully separated at final ethanol concentrations of 30%, 50%, 60%, 70% and 80%, respectively. HPLC, FT-IR, GC-MS and automatic amino-acid analysis were applied to investigate their chemical characteristics. Monosacc...