title: Structural features and hypoglycemic activities of two polysaccharides from a hot-water extract of Agrocybe cylindracea.
abstract: A glucan (AG-HN1, [alpha]D +24 degrees) and a heteroglycan (AG-HN2, [alpha]D +26 degrees) were isolated from a hot-water extract of the fruiting bodies of Agrocybe cylindracea. The structures were investigated by a combination of chemical and spectroscopic methods. The results indicated that high molecular weight glucan AG-HN1 is primarily a beta-(1-->6)-branched (1-->3)-beta-D-glucan containing small amounts of (1-->4)-linked and (1-->6)-linked glucopyranosyl residues. Low molecular weight heteroglycan AG-HN2 gives galactose, glucose, fucose, and mannose on hydrolysis and appears to be chiefly composed of (1-->6)-linked gluco- and galacto-pyranosyl residues, many of them branched, and various nonreducing terminal residues. AG-HN1 showed a remarkable hypoglycemic activity in both normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice by ip administration, and its activity was higher than that of AG-HN2.
authors.affiliation: Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kiho
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sobue
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ukai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000737:chemistry*; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism*; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013311:Streptozocin; D014020:Tissue Extracts
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D011134:Polysaccharides; D014020:Tissue Extracts; D013311:Streptozocin