FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2013, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (23): 160-164.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201323034

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Isolation, Purification and Compositional Analysis of Agaropectin from Gracilaria lemaneiformis

LIU Qiu-feng,SU Yong-chang,WU Cheng-ye*     

  1. Fisheries Research Institute of Fujian, Xiamen 361013, China
  • Received:2012-12-26 Revised:2013-10-29 Online:2013-12-15 Published:2014-01-03
  • Contact: WU Cheng-ye E-mail:qfeng.liu@163.com

Abstract:

Three polysaccharides named as SPS-1, SPS-2 and SPS-3 were separated by gradient elution on a DEAEcellulose
column from the agaropectin extracted from Gracilaria lemaneiformis. Their chemical analysis including sulfate
base content, relative molecular mass, purity, characteristic bonds and monosaccharide composition were characterized byion
chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, ultraviolet spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy. The results indicated that the
yields of SPS-1, SPS-2 and SPS-3 were 2.7%, 47.2% and 2.2%, with sulfate base contents of 5.1%, 9.3% and 6.3%, respectively.
The agaropectin contained no protein, amino acid or nucleic acid. The content of SPS-2 consisting of polysaccharides of similar chain
length of was 92.14%. The mass-average and number-average relative molecular masses of SPS-2 were 367686 and 230434,
respectively. SPS-2 was a group of complex sulfated polysaccharide with 17.34% galactose, 2.72% raffinose, 8.82% saccharose
and 1.18% arabinose in the monosaccharide composition.

Key words: agaropectin, isolation and purification, IR analysis, monosaccharide composition

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