Complement activating galactan chains in a pectic arabinogalactan (AGIIb-1) from the roots of Angelica acutiloba Kitagawa

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 149-156

  Zhang, Yongwen ^a,b   Kiyohara, Hiroaki ^a   Sakurai, Masumi H ^a   Yamada, Haruki ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b China Japan Friendship Inst C   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; DEGRADATION; FILTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

ANTICOMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITY; ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; CONTROLLED SMITH DEGRADATION; GALACTAN CHAINS; GALACTANASE DIGESTION; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT (HMW) FRACTION; METHYLATION ANALYSIS; OLIGOSACCHARIDE FRACTION; PECTIC ARABINOGALACTAN;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 0030286454     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8617(96)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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