THE STRUCTURE OF LICHENIN: SELECTIVE ENZYMOLYSIS STUDIES
作者:
A. S. Perlin,
S. Suzuki,
期刊:
Canadian Journal of Chemistry
(NRC Available online 1962)
卷期:
Volume 40,
issue 1
页码: 50-56
ISSN:0008-4042
年代: 1962
DOI:10.1139/v62-009
出版商: NRC Research Press
数据来源: NRC
摘要:
Lichenin, the poly-β-D-glucan ofCetrariaislandica(Iceland moss), is found by enzymic degradation to differ in fine structure from the poly-β-D-glucans of cereal grains. Enzymolysis has been carried out with a cellulase and a laminarinase preparation, the former yielding mainlyO-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 3)-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 4)-α-D-glucose, and the latter mainlyO-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 4)-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 3)-α-D-glucose. Di-and tetra-saccharides are produced in small proportions. Steric aspects of these enzymic degradations are discussed. The basis constitution of lichenin is represented by a tetrameric unit in which two adjacent (1 → 4) linkages alternate with an isolated (1 → 3) linkage; occasionally four consecutive monomers are linked by (1 → 4) bonds. The glucans of cereal origin differ mainly in possessing a higher proportion of the latter structural sequence. Despite their close chemical similarity to cellulose, all of these glucans are soluble, a property that appears to be related to the even distribution of β-(1 → 3) bonds along the chains, with a resulting disruption of linear orientation effects.
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