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  • Title: [Polysaccharides of algae: 60. Fucoidan from the Pacific brown alga Analipus japonicus (Harv.) Winne (Ectocarpales, Scytosiphonaceae)].
    Author: Bilan MI, Zakharova AN, Grachev AA, Shashkov AS, Nifant'ev NE, Usov AI.
    Journal: Bioorg Khim; 2007; 33(1):44-53. PubMed ID: 17375658.
    Abstract:
    A fucoidan containing L-fucose, sulfate, and O-acetyl groups at a molar ratio of 3 : 2 : 1, as well as minor amounts of xylose, galactose, and uronic acids was isolated from the brown alga Analipus japonicus collected in the Sea of Japan. The structures of the native polysaccharide and the products of its desulfation and deacetylation were studied by the methods of methylation, periodate oxidation, and NMR spectroscopy. It was shown that the polysaccharide molecule mainly consists of a linear carbohydrate chain of (1-->3)-linked alpha-L-fucopyranose residues, which bear numerous branches in the form of single alpha-L-fucopyranose residues (three branches at position 4 and one branch at position 2 per each ten residues of the main chain). Sulfate groups occupy positions 2 and (to a lesser extent) 4, most of the terminal nonreducing fucose residues being sulfated twice. The acetyl groups are located predominantly at positions 4. The structural role of minor monosaccharides was not established.
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