Suzuki, Shiho Ono, Mariko Toda, Toshiya Kitamura, Shinichi
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
We studied the structure of alginates extracted from five commercial Saccharina ( Laminaria ) species including three varieties (eight samples in all) harvested in Hokkaido, Japan. The algae used were Saccharina japonica, S. japonica var. diabolica, S. japonica var. ochotensis, S. japonica var. religiosa, S. longissima, S. coriacea, S. angustata , ...
Itoh, Yuuki Crofts, Naoko Abe, Misato F. Oitome, Naoko Fujita, Naoko
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
The structure and properties of starch reserves in rice seeds are strongly affected by deficiencies in specific starch biosynthetic enzymes, which are highly expressed in storage tissues. Rice lines with unique seed starches should be utilized for food and industrial applications in the near future. We are currently developing novel rice mutant lin...
Sato, Shota Ohta, Kunihiko Kojima, Kaoru Kozeki, Takuya Ohmachi, Tetsuo Yoshida, Takashi
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
Xyloglucan is a major hemicellulosic component in plant cell walls. Phytopathogenic fungi secrete cell wall-degrading enzymes on their infection to hosts, while the nature of the cell wall-lytic enzymes of such fungi are yet to be fully understood. Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne fungus that causes vascular wilt diseases in a variety of commer...
Mori, Marina Ichikawa, Megumi Kiguchi, Yumiko Miyazaki, Takatsugu Hattori, Makoto Nishikawa, Atsushi Tonozuka, Takashi
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
Pedobacter heparinus heparin lyase II ( Ph HepII) is composed of N-terminal, central, and C-terminal domains. A long surface loop, designated loop-A, is in the N-terminal domain and is composed of amino acids 84-89. In this study, we deleted two, three, or four residues in loop-A to create Δ86-87, Δ85-87, and Δ84-87 Ph HepII deletion mutants. We hy...
Matsunaga, Kazuhiko Setoguchi, Shinji Shimono, Kaori Kamesawa, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Toshikazu Funane, Kazumi
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
Sugarcane vinegar is produced in various countries of southern Asia. It is also a niche product of the Kagoshima and Okinawa Prefectures in Japan. Turbid compounds are sometimes found in sugarcane vinegar, thereby lowering the market value. In this study, the turbid compounds were precipitated with a 1:2 (v/v) volume of ethanol, and they were ident...
Murakami, Seigo Kuramochi, Mai Koda, Tomonori Nishio, Taichi Nishioka, Akihiro
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
We examined a method to produce bread from crystalline rice flour without using thickening agents such as gluten, polysaccharide thickening, and amorphous rice flour. Rice grains were pulverized by a jet mill to produce flour. Samples of rice flours of various particle size distributions were prepared by using a size shifter. The degree of starch d...
Ajisaka, Katsumi Yokoyama, Tatsuya Matsu, Keita
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
Five kinds of fucoidans from the brown seaweeds Cladosiphon okamuranus , Sargassum hornery , Kjellmaniella crassifolia ( Saccharine sculpera ), Nemacystus decipiens , and Fucus vesiculosus , were isolated according to a previously reported procedure with slight modification. The scavenging activities of DPPH radical, superoxide radical, and hydroxy...
Sha, Yuki Adachi, Shuji
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
The apparent density and porosity of four rice cultivars, Koshihikari, Yumepirika, Habutaemochi, and Kitayukimochi, decreased and increased, respectively, with the increasing temperature in the range of 5 °C to 60 °C. Especially large changes in both apparent density and porosity were observed at 60 °C, which can be ascribed to the starch gelatiniz...
Nagasawa, Takae Sato, Katsuyuki Shimada, Yasuhiro Kasumi, Takafumi
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
D-Glucose and D-fructose are isomers of commonly consumed monosaccharides. The ratio of conversion of D-glucose to D-fructose by glucose isomerase (xylose isomerase) is not more than 50 %. However, addition of an equimolar ratio of the organogermanium compound poly- trans -[(2-carboxyethyl)germasesquioxane] (Ge-132) or its derivative increases the ...
Nakashima, Izumi Kishida, Akari Takaoka, Yuji Morisada, Shintaro Ohto, Keisuke Kawakita, Hidetaka Iwasaki, Wataru Sathuluri, Ramachandra Rao Miyazaki, Masaya
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Journal of Applied Glycoscience
Abstract: A spherical gel containing amino groups was prepared using monomers of N , N -dimethylacrylamide and N , N -dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate, with a cross-linker composed of N , N ′-methylenebisacrylamide prepared by suspension polymerization for the adsorption of glucuronic acid and chondroitin sulfate. The prepared gel was immersed in gl...
