scholarly journals Polymers Having Pendant Amino Sugar Groups: Synthesis and Bioactivity of Polymers Having Free Glucosamine and N-Acetylglucosamine

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Koyama ◽  
Akira Yoshida ◽  
Keisuke Kurita
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2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-272
Author(s):  
Priya S. Singh ◽  
Aizaz Shaikh ◽  
Aditi Deshmukh ◽  
Amit P. Pratap

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5788
Author(s):  
Dominic Kwadwo Anning ◽  
Zhilong Li ◽  
Huizhen Qiu ◽  
Delei Deng ◽  
Chunhong Zhang ◽  
...  

Amino sugars are key microbial biomarkers for determining the contribution of microbial residues in soil organic matter (SOM). However, it remains largely unclear as to what extent inorganic nitrogen (N) fertilization can lead to the significant degradation of SOM in alkaline agricultural soils. A six-year field experiment was conducted from 2013 to 2018 to evaluate the effects of chronic N enrichment on microbial residues, amino sugars, and soil biochemical properties under four nitrogen (urea, 46% N) fertilization scenarios: 0 (no-N, control), 75 (low-N), 225 (medium-N), and 375 (high-N) kg N ha−1. The results showed that chronic N enrichment stimulated microbial residues and amino sugar accumulation over time. The medium-N treatment increased the concentration of muramic acid (15.77%), glucosamine (13.55%), galactosamine (18.84%), bacterial residues (16.88%), fungal residues (11.31%), and total microbial residues (12.57%) compared to the control in 2018; however, these concentrations were comparable to the high-N treatment concentrations. The ratio of glucosamine to galactosamine and of glucosamine to muramic acid decreased over time due to a larger increase in bacterial residues as compared to fungal residues. Microbial biomass, soil organic carbon, and aboveground plant biomass positively correlated with microbial residues and amino sugar components. Chronic N enrichment improved the soil biochemical properties and aboveground plant biomass, which stimulated microbial residues and amino sugar accumulation over time.


1980 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. SCHNITZER ◽  
D. A. HINDLE

Three humic and one fulvic acid were degraded by mild chemical oxidation with peracetic acid, with special emphasis on the effects of this type of oxidation on N-containing components. The different types of N that were considered were NH4+-N, amino acid-N, amino sugar-N, NO2−-N + NO3−-N, and by difference from total N, "unknown" N. The behaviour toward mild chemical oxidation of all four preparations was essentially similar: there were decreases in mino acid-N, amino sugar-N and "unknown" N, increases in NH4+-N, NO2−-N + NO3−-N with one material, and in N-gases. The "unknown" N was not inert. Between 16.6 and 59.1% of the latter appeared to be converted, as a result of mild chemical oxidation, to NH3 and N-gases which were expelled from the systems. The results presented provide an insight into what happens to N-containing humic components as a result of mild oxidation.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (12) ◽  
pp. 1265-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Banoub ◽  
Francis Michon ◽  
Fred Cooper

The amino sugar 3-acetamido-3,6-dideoxy-4-O-methyl-L-glucose has been characterized in the O-polysaccharide obtained from the bacterial lipopolysaccharide of Vibrio anguillarum. The identity of 1,2,5-tri-O-acetyl-3-acetamido-3,6-dideoxy-4-O-methyl-L-glucitol has been established by electron-impact and chemical-ionization mass spectrometry and by a labeling procedure.


1981 ◽  
Vol 197 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Casu ◽  
P Oreste ◽  
G Torri ◽  
G Zoppetti ◽  
J Choay ◽  
...  

The chemical composition and the 13C n.m.r. spectra of heparin oligosaccharides (essentially octasaccharides), having high affinity for antithrombin III and high anti-(Factor Xa) activity, prepared by three independent approaches (extraction, partial deaminative cleavage with HNO2 and partial depolymerization with bacterial heparinase), leading to different terminal residues, have been studied and compared with those of the corresponding inactive species. Combined wit chemical data, the spectra of the active oligosaccharides and of their fragmentation products afforded information on composition and sequence. The three types of active oligosaccharides were shown to have the common hexasaccharide core I-Aa-G-As*-Is-As, where I and alpha-L-idopyranosyl-uronic acid, Aa = 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-glucopyranose, G = beta-D-glucopyranosyl-uronic acid, Is = alpha-L-idopyranosyluronic acid 2-O-sulphate, As = 2-deoxy-2-sulphamino-alpha-D-glucopyranose 6-O-sulphate. The fourth residue (As*) is an unusually substituted amino sugar resistant to mild deamination. The 13C spectra of the active species are characterized by signals from the above atypical amino sugar, the most evident of which is at 57.7 p.p.m. These signals, compared with those of appropriate synthetic model compounds, are compatible with the recently proposed 3-O-sulphation of the residue As* [Lindahl, Bäckström, Thunberg & Leder (1980) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77, 6551-6555].


1974 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1185-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Bisaillon ◽  
J. de Repentigny ◽  
L. G. Mathieu

Thymine-requiring (thy−) mutants of Streptococcus faecalis and S. faecalis var. zymogenes were isolated by selection with aminopterin. D-Cycloserine increased the thymineless death rate of a S. faecalis thy− strain, whereas bacitracin, penicillin, and vancomycin decreased it. A S. faecalis var. zymogenes thy− strain behaved similarly, except that penicillin increased its thymineless death rate. D-Alanine reversed the effect of D-cycloserine on both strains. Because of the specificity of the inhibition, our observations suggest that mucopeptide synthesis occurs in S. faecalis not only during growth but also during thymineless death. The variations in free amino sugar content resulting from D-cycloserine inhibition of growth and thymineless death also support this conclusion.


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