In a previous study of the synthesis of cellular carbohydrate during fermentation by D.C.L. baker's yeast (Trevelyan, Gammon, Wiggins & Harrison, 1952) little variation was found in the trichloroacetic acid-soluble carbohydrate, of which the main constituent is trehalose (Trevelyan & Harrison, 1952). The low concentration of glucose in the medium used, about 5 mm, was thought to have restricted...

Surfactant protein D (SP-D), a C-type lectin, is an important pulmonary host defense molecule. Carbohydrate binding is critical to its host defense properties, but the precise polysaccharide structures recognized by the protein are unknown. SP-D binding to Aspergillus fumigatus is strongly inhibited by a soluble beta-(1-->6)-linked but not by a soluble beta-(1-->3)-linked glucosyl homopolysacch...

Glycogen is present in all tissues, but it primarily stored the liver and muscle. As a branched chain carbohydrate, broken down by phosphorylase debrancher enzymes, which are cytoplasmic. It also degraded lysosomal α-glucosidase (GAA) known as acid α-glucosidase. The deficiency of GAA patients Pompe disease, phenotypes infantile, juvenile later onset forms. disease treated enzyme replacement th...

1. The A carbohydrate isolated from Type I pneumococcus by Pappenheimer and Enders, on the basis of elementary analysis, the presence of the acetyl group and its immunological properties, appears to be identical with the acetyl polysaccharide described by Avery and Goebel. 2. The A carbohydrate possesses a greater anti-opsonic action than either the deacetylated substance obtained by boiling in...

A soluble elicitor of glyceollin accumulation was released from insoluble mycelial walls of Phytophthora megasperma var. sojae after incubation with soybean cotyledon tissue for as little as 2 minutes. Various enzymic and chemical treatments of the released elicitor indicated that the activity resided in a carbohydrate moiety, and gel filtration disclosed the presence of at least two active mol...

The molecular weight of the major glycoprotein from the human erythrocyte membrane is 29,000, of which 55% is carbohydrate and 45% is protein. The binding of sodium dodecyl sulfate to this glycoprotein is anomalous when compared to water soluble proteins and leads to migration rates in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels that cannot be interpreted in terms of molecular weight. Anomalous ...

The effects of night temperature on plant morphology and nitrogen accumulation were examined in rice (Oryza sativa L.) during vegetative growth. The results showed that the shoot biomass of the plants was greater at 27°C (high nighttime temperature, HNT) than at 22°C (CK). However, the increase in both shoot and root biomasses was not significant under 10 mg N/L. The shoot nitrogen concentratio...

BACKGROUND The glycemic response to diet has been linked with noncommunicable diseases and is reduced by low-palatable, viscous, soluble fiber (1). Whether a palatable, low-viscous, soluble fiber such as resistant maltodextrin (RMD) has the same effect is unclear. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess evidence on the attenuation of the blood glucose response to foods by < or = 10 g RMD in hea...

A split plot 3 by 3 experiment was designed to investigate and distinguish the relationships among production of primary metabolites (soluble sugar and starch), secondary metabolites (total phenolics, TP; total flavonoids, TF) and leaf gas exchange of three varieties of the Malaysian medicinal herb Labisia pumila Blume, namely the varieties alata, pumila and lanceolata, under three levels of CO...

The use of corrosion inhibitors can effectively avoid the metals and alloys, but conventional organic/inorganic have certain toxic side effects environmental pollution problems (including some expensive reagents catalysts), prompting researchers to turn their attention research water-soluble polymer with green environment friendly low pollution. This paper reviews action mechanism inhibitors, s...