title: [Polysaccharides of algae: 60. Fucoidan from the Pacific brown alga Analipus japonicus (Harv.) Winne (Ectocarpales, Scytosiphonaceae)].
abstract: A fucoidan containing L-fucose, sulfate, and O-acetyl groups at a molar ratio of 3 : 2 : 1, as well as minor amounts of xylose, galactose, and uronic acids was isolated from the brown alga Analipus japonicus collected in the Sea of Japan. The structures of the native polysaccharide and the products of its desulfation and deacetylation were studied by the methods of methylation, periodate oxidation, and NMR spectroscopy. It was shown that the polysaccharide molecule mainly consists of a linear carbohydrate chain of (1-->3)-linked alpha-L-fucopyranose residues, which bear numerous branches in the form of single alpha-L-fucopyranose residues (three branches at position 4 and one branch at position 2 per each ten residues of the main chain). Sulfate groups occupy positions 2 and (to a lesser extent) 4, most of the terminal nonreducing fucose residues being sulfated twice. The acetyl groups are located predominantly at positions 4. The structural role of minor monosaccharides was not established.
authors: M I
authors: MI
authors: Bilan
authors: A N
authors: AN
authors: Zakharova
authors: A A
authors: AA
authors: Grachev
authors: A S
authors: AS
authors: Shashkov
authors: N E
authors: NE
authors: Nifant'ev
authors: A I
authors: AI
authors: Usov
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D000459:Phaeophyceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D011134:Polysaccharides; C007789:fucoidan