Research Article
Partial Chemical Characterization of Immunomodulatory Polysaccharides from Plantago palmata Hook. f. s. Leaves
Table 3
Products of the PS extracted from Plantago palmata (% mole) after reduction, methylation, hydrolysis, and acetylation, followed by GC-MS.
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| | PS50 from
| Fraction 2 from | | Monosaccharide | Linkage | Plantago palmata | Plantago palmata | | | | (%) | PS50a |
| | | Terminal | 7.3 | x | | | 1, 2 | 1.3 | x | | Ara f | 1, 3 | 1.3 | x | | | 1, 5 | 0.6 | x |
| | | Total | 10.5 | |
| | Fuc p | Terminal | 3.4 | |
| | | Terminal | 3.8 | x | | | 1, 3 | 2.1 | x | | Gal | 1, 6 | 5.0 | x | | | 1, 3, 6 | 13.8 | x |
| | | Total | 24.7 | |
| | | Terminal | 1.4 | x | | Glc | 1, 4 | 6.3 | x |
| | | Total | 7.7 | |
| | | Terminal | 1.5 | | | | 1, 2 | 1.0 | | | Rha p | 1, 3 | 0.4 | x | | | 1, 2, 4 | 1.1 | |
| | | Total | 4.0 | |
| | | Terminal | 0.5 | x | | Xyl p | 1, 4 | 1.4 | |
| | | Total | 1.9 | |
| | | Terminal | 0.8 | x | | | 1, 4 | 38.7 | xx | | GalA | 1, 3, 4 | 0.5 | | | | 1, 2, 4 | 0.4 | |
| | | Total | 40.4 | |
| | GlcA | Terminal | 1.9 | x |
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a% linkage not quantifiable due to the minute amount of PS analyzed; the x indicates that the linkage was effectively detected.
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