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  • Title: Atomic force microscopy imaging of carrageenans from red algae of Gigartinaceae and Tichocarpaceae families.
    Author: Sokolova EV, Chusovitin EA, Barabanova AO, Balagan SA, Galkin NG, Yermak IM.
    Journal: Carbohydr Polym; 2013 Apr 02; 93(2):458-65. PubMed ID: 23499083.
    Abstract:
    In the present article, the atomic force microscopy was applied to investigate macromolecular structures of various carrageenan types including hybrid polysaccharides (κ-, κ/β-, κ/ι-, λ-, and X-carrageenans) depending on polysaccharide concentration. The structures dependence on a polysaccharide concentration also was focused. κ-Carrageenan forms both single and two stranded structures at a low concentration. At high concentrations κ-, κ/β-, and κ/ι-carrageenans form fibrous network-like structures by a side-by-side association type at the same time for κ/ι-carrageenan end-to-end association type also was found. Comparably to κ-carrageenan, κ/β-carrageenan network was more open with coarser fibers while κ/ι-carrageenan structure is characterized with a more flexible network. Honeycombed structures due to end-to-end and side-by-side association types were observed for X-carrageenan, while λ-carrageenan formed honeycombed structures only at high concentrations. In order to investigate topographical parameters of the carrageenans macromolecular structure a new method of the autocorrelation function analysis was used for the first time.
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