Enzyme immunoassay system for estimating the ultrastructure of (l,6)-branched (l,3)-β-ghicans

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-229

  Adachi, Y ^a   Miura, N N ^a   Ohno, N ^b   Tamura, H ^b   Tanaka, S ^a   Yadomae, T ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SEIKAGAKU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001628588     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8617(99)00014-4     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Adachi, Y., Ohno, N., Ohsawa, M., Sato, K., Oikawa, S., & Yadomae, T. (1989). Physiochemical properties and antitumor activities of chemically modified derivatives of antitumor glucan grifolan LE from Grifola frondosa. Chem Pharm. Bull. (Tokyo), 37, 18381843.
2. Adachi, Y., Ohno, N., Yadomae, T., Suzuki, Y., Ohsawa, M., & Oikawa, S. (1990). Thermal denaturation of (l,3)-β-D-glucans in neutral aqueous solution above 130°, Effect on physicochemical properties. Carbohydr. Res., 198, 111-122.
3. Adachi, Y., Ohno, N., & Yadomae, T. (1994). Preparation and antigen specificity of an anti- (l,3)-β-D-glucan antibody. Biol. Pharm. Bull., 17, 1508-1512.
4. Duffus, J. H., Levi, C., & Manners, D. J. (1982). Yeast cell-wall glucans., Adv. Microb. Physioi, 23, 151-181.
5. Fujimoto, S., Orita, K., Kondoh, T., Taguchi, T., Yoshida, K., Kimura, T., Ogawa, N., & Furue, H. (1988). Sizofiran (in Japanese). Biotherapy, 2, 500-508.
6. Miura, N. N., Ohno, N., Aketagawa, J., Tamura, H., Tanaka, S., & Yadomae, T. (1996). Blood clearance of (l,3)-D-glucan in MRL Ipr/lpr mice. FEMS Immunol. Med. Microbiol., 13, 51-57.
7. Morita, H., Urashima, Y., Tanaka, S., Aketagawa, J., Tamura, H., & Kumazawa, Y. (1996). Simultaneous estimation of endotoxin and (1,3)- β-Dglucan with an automated kinetic-chromogenic assay using Wellreader. J. Antibact. Antifung. Agents., 24, 467-475.
8. Nagi, N., Ohno, N., Adachi, Y., Aketagawa, J., Tamura, H., Shibata, Y., Tanaka, S., & Yadomae, T. (1993). Application of limulus test (G pathway) for the detection of different conformers of (1,3)- β-D-glucans. Biol. Pharm. Bull., 16, 822-828.
9. Norisuye, T., Yanaki, T., & Fujita, H. (1980). Triple helix of Schizophyllum commune polysaccharide in aqueous solution. J. Polym. Sci., 18, 547-558.
10. Ogawa, K., Watanabe, T., Tsurugi, J., & Ono, S. (1972). Conformation behavior of a gel-forming (1,3)- β-D-glucan in alkaline solution. Carbohydr. Res., 23, 399-405.
11. Ohno, N., Adachi, Y., Suzuki, I., Oikawa, S., Sato, K., Suzuki, Y., Ohsawa, M., & Yadomae, T. (1986a). Two different conformations of antitumor glucans obtained from Grifola frondosa. Chem. Pharm. Bull. (Tokyo), 34, 2555-2560.
12. Ohno, N., Suzuki, I., & Yadomae, T. (1986b). Structure and antitumor activity of a β-1,3-glucan isolated from the culture filtrate of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum IFO 9395. Chem, Pharm. Bull., 34, 1362-1365.
13. Ohno, N., Adachi, Y., Suzuki, I., Sato, K., Oikawa, S., & Yadomae, T. (1986c). Characterization of the antitumor glucan obtained from liquidcultured Grifola frondosa. Chem. Pharm. Bull., 34, 1709-1715.
14. Ohno, N., Adachi, Y., Ohsawa, M., Sato, K., Oikawa, S., & Yadomae, T. (1987). Conformational changes of the two different conformers of grifolan in sodium hydroxide, urea or dimethylsulfoxide solution. Chem. Pharm. Bull., 35, 2108-2113.
15. Ohno, N., Hashimoto, T., Adachi, Y., & Yadomae, T. (1996). Conformation dependency of nitric oxide synthesis of murine peritoneal macrophages by β-glucans in vitro. Immunol. Lett., 52, 1-7.
16. 13C-nuclear magnetic resonance study of polysaccharide gels. Molecular architecture in the gels consisting of fungal, branched (l, 3)-β-D-glucans (lentinan and schizophyllan) as manifested by conformational changes induced by sodium hydroxide. Carbohydr. Res., 74, 227-240.
17. Suzuki, T., Ohno, N., Saito, K., & Yadomae, T. (1992). Activation of the complement system by (l,3)-D-glucans having different degrees of branching and different ultrastructures. J. Pharmacobiodyn., 15, 277285.
18. Taguchi, T., Kaneko, Y., & Chihara, G. (1988). Lentinan (in Japanese). Biotherapy, 2, 509-521.
19. Tamura, H., Tanaka, S., Oda, T., Uemura, Y., Aketagawa, J., & Hashimoto, Y. (1996). Purification and characterization of a (l,3)-β-D-glucan-binding protein from horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) amoebocytes. Carbohydr. Res., 295, 103-116.
20. Yadomae, T., γ Ohno, N. (1996). Structure-activity relationship of immunomodulating (l,3)-β-D-glucans. Recent Res. Devel. Chem. Pharm. Sci., l, 23-33.
21. Yanaki, T., Itoh, W., & Tabata, K. (1986). Correlation between the antitumor activity of Schizophyllan and its triple helix. Agric. Biol. Chem., 50, 2415-2416.