TRIPLE HELIX OF SCHIZOPHYLLUM-COMMUNE POLYSACCHARIDE IN DILUTE-SOLUTION .3. HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES IN WATER
TRIPLE HELIX OF SCHIZOPHYLLUM-COMMUNE POLYSACCHARIDE IN DILUTE-SOLUTION .3. HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES IN WATER
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DOI:
10.1021/ma60078a019
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
FUJITA, H
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作者:
YANAKI, T;NORISUYE, T;FUJITA, H
A native sample of a Schizophyllum commune polysaccharide (schizophyllan) and its sonicated fragments, ranging in weight-average molecular weight (Mv) from 105 to 6 X 106 g mol™ 1, were studied by ultracentrifugation and viscometry in water at 25 C, in which schizophyllan has been found to exist as a triple helix. Measurements of intrinsic viscosity [] and limiting sedimentation coefficient s0 showed that the schizophyllan triple helix is almost perfectly rigid up to Mv= 5 X 105 g mol™ 1 but acquires flexibility for higher Mw. The data in the lower molecular weight range were analyzed by Yamakawa’s theoryfor [] and Yamakawa-Fujii’s theory for s0 of a long rigid cylinder, with the result that ML (the molar mass per unit cylinder length)= 2150±150 nm™ 1 and d (the diameter)= 2.6±0.4 nm. This ML gives the pitch of the triple helix per dl, 3-D-glucose residue a value of 0.30±0.02 nm, which agrees closely with the reported pitches for lentinan and a ß-l, 3-d-xylan in the crystalline region. The d value 2.6 nm is consistent with the diameter ofthe model triple helix forschizophyllan. With ML= 2150±150 nm™ 1 and d= 2.6±0.4 nm, the persistence length that allows the theoretical curves of s0 and [] for wormlike cylindersto fit thepresent data was found to be 200±30 nm. This value indicates that the schizophyllan triple helix is stiffer than that of native collagen, a known triple-helical biopolymer.