537 results about "Uronic acid" patented technology

The invention discloses a leaf fertilizer composition comprising sodium alginate oligosaccharide, which is characterized in that the composition comprises sodium alginate oligosaccharide, amino acid and microelements that can promote plant growth significantly, wherein sodium alginate oligosaccharide is also known as sodium alginate, sea-tangle glue and algin, is natural polysaccharide carbohydrate extracted from sea tangle, and is a copolymer comprising a-L-mannuronic acid (M), b-D-guluronic acid (G) connected with a-L-mannuronic acid (M) by 1,4-glycosidic bond, and different GGGMMM fragments; a molecular formula is (C6H7O6Na)n; the degree of polymerization is 2-10; the uronic acid constitution M / G is equal to 7:3; the uronic acid content is greater than 90%, and is 2-3% of the total content; the content of a microelement leaf fertilizer is 2-20%; and the microelement leaf fertilizer comprises at least two of sulfur, boron, ferrum, manganese, copper, zinc and molybdenum. The composition is mainly applicable to industrial crops, fruit and vegetable crops, grain crops, economic trees, flowers, lawns and the like.

PCT No. PCT / EP97 / 02379 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 6, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 6, 1998 PCT Filed May 9, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97 / 43317 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 20, 1997Derivatives of the K5 polysaccharide having anticoagulant activity higher than heparin, obtained by a process including the steps of reacting: with an organic base a solution of K5 polysaccharide N-deacetylated, N-sulfated and epimerized at least to an iduronic acid content of 50% treating with a sulfating agent to obtain the N-resulfation of the possible N-desulfated groups.

The present invention provides edible compositions comprising a source of non-solubilised divalent metal ions and from 0.1 to 6% wt of an alginate having an L-guluronic acid content of at least 60% of the total uronic acid units in the alginate. The compositions of the invention have good satiety effects and are beneficial for use in weight control plans. The edible compositions may be a food compositions intended for use in a weight loss or weight control plan such as a meal replacer food product.

Polyurethane gel foams are proposed as is their use in modern wound treatment. In particular, wound dressings comprise polyurethane gel foams for treating moderately to severely exuding wounds. The polyurethane gel foams are thereby produced from an isocyanate component A having a functionality f of fB≦3, a polymeric polyol component B having a functionality f of fB≦6, and a polysaccharide C, comprising at least one uronic acid or a salt thereof, wherein the ratio of the number of isocyanates groups of the isocyananate component A to the total number of hydroxyl groups, carboxy groups and carboxylate groups in the polymeric polyol component B and the polysaccharide C corresponds to the ratio 1:2 to 1:30.

The invention relates to a qualitative and quantitative analysis method for polyoses, which comprises the following steps: (1) the zymohydrolysis and the verification of the polyoses: measuring the content of a polyoses water solution by a colorimetric method; (2) comparing the change of a polyoses mapping before and after zymohydrolysis by HPSEC-ELSD analysis; (3) saccharide ingredient direct HPLC analysis of a polyoses zymohydrolysis solution or HPLC analysis after pre-column derivatization: identifying polyoses mapping and chromatogram peaks by taking a standard monosaccharose, a uronic acid, a disaccharide, and the like as contrasts and taking a chromatogram peak mass-to-charge ratio as reference, and using stable characteristic sections as a quantitative analysis index; and (4) realizing the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the polyoses by establishing polyoses zymohydrolysis responding characteristics and polyoses zymohydrolysis mapping which are based on structural information through the independent or combining application of the steps. The qualitative and quantitative analysis method can be used for the identification and quantitative measurement of the polyoses of traditional Chinese medicine, such as panax, panax pseudoginseng, gen-seng, aweto, cordyceps, ganoderma lucidum, fomes japonica, milk veteh, angelica, and the like and provides an effective method for controlling the quality of the polyoses and the products thereof.

The invention relates to a method for preparing algin oligosaccharide by using algin lyase Agarivorans albus YKW-34, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: firstly preparing enzyme liquid of the algin lyase Agarivorans albus YKW-34, dissolving algin in water, adding the prepared enzyme liquid into the solution, decomposing the algin for 2 to 180 hours in a water bath at a temperature of 20 to 55 DEG C, raising the temperature to between 60 and 100 DEG C, inactivating the algin, filtering the algin by a film, and condensing, freezing and drying the algin to obtain the algin oligosaccharide. The method has the advantages that a culture medium for preparing the algin lyase has economic and simple compositions; the algin lyase has high yield, unique Na<+> / K<+> ion dependence, superior temperature and pH stability and high specific activity, and can degrade seminose half aldehyde and guluronic acid fragments of the algin at the same time; and the produced algin oligosaccharide with the polymerization degree of 2 to 12 has favorable application prospect.

Provided is a heavy metal pollution soil repairing agent using excess activated sludge as the rawmaterial, a method of extraction and a method for repairing the heavy metal pollution soil, which relates to a heavy metal pollution soil repairing agent and a method thereof and a method for repairing the heavy metal pollution soil, and solves the problems of high cost, easily secondary pollution and complex operation existing in the repair of the heavy metal pollution soil. The heavy metal pollution soil repairing agent is composed of amylose, protein, nucleic acid, phosphoric acid, amino acid, humic acid compound, uronic acid and the organic substance required for cell lifecycle. The method for distilling the heavy metal pollution soil repairing agent is as follows: the wastewater treatment excess activated sludge reacts under the condition of 80-120 KPa and 60-100 DEG for 8-20 minutes; then centrifuges for 8-20 min at the rotating speed of 5000-7000r / min. The invention adopts the home position repairing or the heterotopia repairing to repair the heavy metal pollution. The invention has low cost and no secondary pollution, simple operation, short repairing period, strong activity and wide range of application.

The present invention is directed to a composition comprising high mannuronic acid-containing alginate and a polycation having a polydispersity index of less than 1.5. The composition is particularly useful for making biocompatible microcapsules containing living cells for allo- or xeno-transplantation. Such microcapsules have enhanced durability and can maintain their structural and functional integrity over long periods of time compared to prior art alginate microcapsules.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating skin comprising a chemically compatible combination of skin active ingredients comprising palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7, methylsilanol mannuronate, and Lactobacillus ferment, a chemically compatible combination of skin active ingredients comprising plant extracts from Punica granatum, Castanea sativa, Gossypium hirsutum, and Euterpe oleracea, and a dermatologically acceptable vehicle. The compositions can be substantive in that they can remain on a person's skin during sleep.

A method for producing a chondroitin sugar chain comprises at least the following step: a step of allowing “a glucuronic acid donor”, “an N-acetyl galactosamine donor”, “a sugar receptor” and “a bacterial cell enzyme which synthesizes chondroitin” to coexist in a reaction system in the presence of a surfactant. Here, the surfactant is preferably selected from n-nonyl-β-D-thiomaltopyranoside, sucrose monocaproate and sucrose monolaurate. The chondroitin sugar chain has all the following properties 1) to 3): 1) a weight average molecular weight: 50,000 or more when it is measured by gel filtration chromatography, 2) it is completely degraded to disaccharides with chondroitinase ABC, 3) when the sugar chain is decomposed with chondroitinase ABC and the decomposed products are subjected to a disaccharide analysis, substantially all of them correspond to an unsaturated disaccharide unit of chondroitin.

Modified polysaccharide compositions and their use for treating subjects with cancer, preventing cancer in high-risk subjects and inhibiting metastasis in a subject are described. The modified polysaccharide includes a saccharide backbone being less than 5% esterified and containing repeating units, wherein each repeating unit has a plurality of uronic acid molecules, each repeating unit having at least one neutral monosaccharide attached thereto, at least one side chain of saccharides attached to the backbone further comprising a plurality of neutral saccharides or saccharide derivatives; and having an average molecule weight in the range of 15 to 60 kD.

The invention discloses a novel method for producing high molecular weight sodium hyaluronate (HA-Na) with amino acid complex liquid as a nitrogen source through fermentation. In the method for producing the high molecular weight sodium hyaluronate, provided by the invention, yeast cream or yeast powder is replaced with the amino acid complex liquid as a fermentation nitrogen source of streptococcus zooepidemicus. The HA-Na with molecular weight of 2.2*10<6>D is obtained through control of a fermentation process. When the method is applied to industrial production, on the one hand, contents of hetero-protein and pigment in fermentation liquid can be effectively reduced, the step of subsequent HA-Na extraction is decreased, and the physical damage of the molecular weight of HA-Na in the fermentation liquid in the extraction process is reduced; on the other hand, the HA-Na production cost can be lowered, and the novel method has higher industrial application value. The HA-Na produced by the method has the molecular weight of 2.0-2.2*10<6>D, the alduronic acid content of 42.4-43.5%, the intrinsic viscosity of 3,064-3,115 and the protein content of 0.1%.

The invention discloses a low molecular weight glycosylated chondroitin sulfate, whose weight average molecular weight is 3000-15000Da. The monosaccharide composition comprises acetyl galactosamine (D-GalNAc), glucuronic acid (D-GlcUA), fucose (L-Fuc), or its sulfuric ester (expressed in -OS03<->), wherein the mole ratio of D-GalNAc to D-GlcUA to L-Fuc to -OS03<-> is 1: (1+ / -0.3): (1+ / -0.3): (3.5+ / -0.5). The low molecular weight glycosylated chondroitin sulfate has a strong anti-HIV-1 virus activity, is a gp120 entry inhibitor, and can be used for preventing and / or treating AIDS. The invention also provides a method for preparing the low molecular weight glycosylated chondroitin sulfate and its composition preparation. Glycosylated chondroitin sulfate is depolymerized by the peroxide method to obtain a low molecular weight product, and then low molecular and / or high-molecular impurities of the product are removed by gel separation or ultrafiltration method. The low molecular weight glycosylated chondroitin sulfate and its medicinal composition can be prepared in the form of an injection, a lyophilized powder or a suppository.

Bacterial polynucleotides and polypeptides are provided in which the polypeptides have a dehydrogenase activity, such as an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity, an uronate, a 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronate (DEHU) ((4S,5S)-4,5 dihydroxy-2,6-dioxohexanoate) hydrogenase activity, a 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-gluconate dehydrogenase activity, a D-mannuronate hydrogenase activity, and / or a D-mannnonate dehydrogenase activity. Methods, enzymes, recombinant microorganism, and microbial systems are also provided for converting polysaccharides, such as those derived from biomass, into suitable monosaccharides or oligosaccharides, as well as for converting suitable monosaccharides or oligosaccharides into commodity chemicals, such as biofuels. Commodity chemicals produced by the methods described herein are also provided.

The invention discloses a method for producing glucaric acid by constructing recombinant saccharomyces cerevisiae and fermenting and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The method comprises the following steps: knocking out an OPI gene of saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741; introducing myo inositol-1-phosphate synthase and inositol monophosphatase from the saccharomyces cerevisiae, inositol from arabidopsis thaliana and uronic acid dehydrogenase from pseudomonas syringae into the saccharomyces cerevisiae through constitutive plasmid pY26-GPD-TEF, and realizing approach construction of the saccharomyces cerevisiae from glucose to the glucaric acid. According to the method disclosed by the invention, by use of a constructed metabolic pathway, non-selectivity, high energy consumption property and high cost performance of a chemical oxidation method are avoided; the low-priced glucose is directly transformed into D-glucaric acid with high added value by fermentation culture of engineering bacteria; the method has the advantages of mild reaction conditions, high transformation rate and fewer byproducts; production cost can be greatly reduced.

The present invention provides a new class of compounds presenting a high compatibility with tissues and organic fluids. Such new compounds are polysaccharides essentially formed of units of uronic acid and / or hexosamine, containing nitro groups —ONO2 covalently bonded to the saccharide structure. Preferably, the polysaccharides according to the invention are prevalently formed of disaccharide repeating units formed of uronic acid and hexosamine. These compounds, in psychological conditions, selectively release NO, allowing a reduction in the amount of NO needed to achieve a determined therapeutical effect. This result has been achieved by functionalizing polysaccharides essentially formed of units of uronic acid and / or hexosamine, with subsituents containing a ONO2 ? group.

The invention provides an alginate oligosaccharide and its derivatives with the degree of polymerization ranging from 2 to 22. The alginate oligosaccharide is composed of β-D-mannuronic acid linked by 1,4 glycosidic bonds. The derivatives with the reduced terminal in position 1 of carboxyl radical can be prepared by oxidative degradation. The invention also provides a process for preparing the alginate oligosaccharide and its derivatives, which includes the procedure that an alginate solution is reacted for 2 to 6 h in an autoclave at pH 2˜6 and the temperature of 100˜120° C., and adjusted pH to 7 after the reaction is stopped, after which the resultant oligosaccharide is oxidized in the presence of an oxidant to obtain an oxidative product. The alginate oligosaccharide and its derivatives of the invention can be used in the manufacture of a medicament for the prophylaxis and treatment of AD and diabetes.

Heparin is synthesized from a polysaccharide comprised of a 1-4 glycosidically linked alternating polymer of uronic acid and glucosamine residues, wherein the uronic acid is selected from iduronic and glucuronic acid, wherein the glucosamine is partially N-sulfated; by a series of selective reactions catalyzed by recombinant enzymes.

The invention discloses an ursolic acid-3-O-beta-D-pyranglucuronide and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof, and a preparation method and a medicinal application of a compound, and especially an application in preparing medicaments for resisting diabetes and complications thereof. The ursolic acid-3-O-beta-D-pyranglucuronide and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof have obvious function of reducing blood sugar, and especially have favorable efficacy of reducing hyperglycemia after meals.

The invention provides sulfated heparin oligosaccharide as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The sulfated heparin oligosaccharide is characterized in that a non-reducing end of a sulfated heparin oligosaccharide molecule contains an unsaturated double bond produced through enzymolysis of heparinase as well as uronic acid derivatives and glycosylamine derivatives; the sulfated heparin oligosaccharide has a structure represented by a formula I, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, Ra, Rb, Rc and Rd are independently SO3<-> or H; Rx', Ry' and Rz' are independently COCH3 or SO3<->, and n is 1-3. The sulfated heparin oligosaccharide with controllable sulfating degree prepared by virtue of the preparation method has very high activity for inhibiting heparanase in vitro, the activity of the sulfated heparin oligosaccharide for inhibiting cell adhesion and migration is 4-5 times higher than that of heparin, and the activity for inhibiting tumor metastasis in mice is 2-3 times higher than that of the heparin; the sulfated heparin oligosaccharide has relatively good tumor metastasis resistance and relatively high specificity.

The invention relates to a novel preparation method for agranular crosslinking sodium hyaluronate. Crosslinking reaction is performed in the low-concentration linear molecule state, and accordingly excess exposure of enzymatic-hydrolysis sites caused by crushing or extrusion of mechanical external forces of crosslinking sodium hyaluronate in traditional processes can be avoided. Redundant crosslinker can be eliminated effectively by white-powdered crosslinking sodium hyaluronate particles obtained by physical precipitation by using organic solvent, and accordingly accurate distribution of different concentrations of products can be guaranteed. The crosslinking sodium hyaluronate has the characteristics of high-temperature resistance, enzymatic-hydrolysis resistance and agranulation, and excellent injectability can be improved evidently. Kinetic viscosity of the agranular crosslinking sodium hyaluronate is reduced by 3-10% after sterilizing at 121 DEG C for 30 minutes, enzymatic hydrolysis is performed to 1000 U of sodium hyaluronate for 48 hours, and releasing amount of uronic acid is smaller than 40%.

The invention relates to an oligosaccharide metallic compound. The compound is characterized in that sugar residues of the compound consist of alpha-1, 4-L-guluronic acid; the weight average molecular weight of the compound is less than or equal to 12kD; and a molecular general formula of the compound is (C6H7O6)nCrm, wherein n is equal to 1 to 54, m is equal to 1 to 27 and the mass percentage of trivalent chromium is 0.1 to 12 percent. The preparation of the compound comprises the following steps: slowly adding chromic salt and dilute alkaline aqueous solutions in oligoguluronic acid aqueous solution under the conditions that pH is equal to 5 to 10 and temperature is between 40 and 80 DEG C; after stopping adding dilute alkaline and chromic salt aqueous solutions, carrying out heat-insulation reaction for 1 to 3h; carrying out filtration and precipitating the filtrate by ethanol with the volume 3 to 5 times that of the filtrate; carrying out static, precipitation and centrifugation; and collecting and washing the precipitate by using anhydrous ethanol to obtain the compound after drying. The oligosaccharide metallic compound has the advantages that because the raw materials are derived from marine natural products, the compound has abundant resources, easy industrialization, high safety, unique structure and ideal oral absorption and particularly integrates the advantages of marine oligosaccharide and trivalent chromium; and the compound not only has the functions of preventing insulin resistance and adjusting sugar and fat metabolism disturbance, but also has broad market and application prospects particularly in the prevention and treatment of diabetes II.

Wolfberry glycopeptide composition and methods for preparing and using the same, the part with a molecular weight distribution of 1000 Da to 10000 Da of the wolfberry glycopeptide accounts for 50-85% on the HPLC differential refractive index map; and the protein content is 20-35% weight percentage, neutral polysaccharide content is 20-35% weight percentage. Optionally, the uronic acid content is 5-20% weight percentage. The preparation method of the present invention removes part of insoluble impurities by a heating flocculation method, instead of the conventional organic solvent extraction process, and without using any organic solvents in the whole process.

The invention discloses a quantitative detection method of polysaccharide containing uronic acid. The method comprises the following steps: preparing a standard polysaccharide solution and a sample solution to be tested; hydrolyzing polysaccharide in the standard solution and the sample solution to be tested so as to obtain hydrolyzed residue; derivatizing the residue with 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone to prepare a sugar derivative; carrying out chromatographic analysis on the sugar derivative by the utilization of a high performance liquid chromatograph and a triple quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometer; determining which kind of polysaccharide containing uronic acid the sample to be tested is according to the chromatogram; and preparing a standard curve of chromatographic peak area and polysaccharide concentration according to the chromatogram of the standard polysaccharide disaccharide derivative obtained by high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrum, and calculating content of polysaccharide containing uronic acid in the sample to be tested by the utilization of peak area of the sample to be tested. According to the method provided by the invention, quantitative detection of polysaccharides can be accurately carried out, and effective means is provided for quality control of products such as medicines, health product and the like of the polysaccharides.

The invention relates to pumpkin vermicelli, mainly comprising pumpkin meal, sweet potato meal and cornmeal in a ratio of 50-51:30-38:11-20. The ratio of the mixture of the pumpkin meal, sweet potato meal and cornmeal to water is 100:78-86. The production process comprises blending, stirring, forming, freezing, airing, traying and shaping, secondary airing, packaging and finished product preparing. The pumpkin vermicelli has the following benefits: the selection of the raw materials is scientific; and the pumpkin vermicelli contains fruit acid, amino acid, mannite, carotene, trigonelline, adenine, uronic acid and trace elements such as zinc and chromium, has the effects of lowering blood sugar and lipid, detoxifying, protecting livers and resisting aging as long as the pumpkin vermicelli is often eaten and is the first choice for the diabetics.

The invention discloses a method for synchronously determining monosaccharide, uronic acid and saccharic acid in a wood fiber material reaction system. The method comprises the steps as follows: pretreating the wood fiber material reaction system to obtain a solution to be determined; determining standard samples of monosaccharide, uronic acid and saccharic acid by adopting an integrated pulse amperometric detection method and a chromatographic peak integration method and utilizing a high-performance liquid ion exchange chromatograph, thus obtaining a standard equation; determining the solution to be determined by utilizing the high-performance liquid ion exchange chromatograph and calculating the content of each component by utilizing the standard equation; and separating and quantifyingxylose and mannose in the solution to be determined by utilizing a high-performance liquid chromatography, and then amending the result of the high-performance liquid ion exchange chromatography. Themethod for synchronously, correctly and quantitatively determining the monosaccharide, the uronic acid and the saccharic acid is established for the first time, the separation degrees and the detection efficiencies of eight types of materials are improved greatly and the synchronous, correct and quantitative determination on nine types of materials in the wood fiber material reaction system can be realized under the combination of the high-performance liquid ion exchange chromatography; and the method has significance to matter changing, and component analysis and determination on products and intermediate products in bio-refinery process of the wood fiber material.