Features of the hemicellulose structure of some species of regional raw materials and products of their enzymatic hydrolysis

Abstract

Nowadays, it is recognized that a lot of polysaccharides are biologically active. It is well known that these biomolecules show the highest level of their activity if they are water-soluble preparations, their molecular weight being 15–25 kDa, and if they preserve the supramolecular structure of carbohydrates. Basing on the fact that β-glucans of mushrooms are characterized by the antitumor, anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory activities, it is important to determine whether regional raw material contains polysaccharides of a similar structure, and to define the conditions for their fragmentation to obtain products with a given molecular weight. The purpose of the work was to characterize the features of the structure of the hemicellulose complex of the Agaricus bisporous and Pleurotus ostreatus and products of their limited enzymatic hydrolysis. To determine the primary structure of hemicellulose polysaccharides, the 1H-NMR spectra of the samples were registered. It has been shown that β-D-(1→3)/β-(1→6)-glucan dominates in the hemicellulose of Pleurotus ostreatus. Among the hemicelluloses in the Agaricus bisporis, the main polysaccharide was galactoglucan. Its main chain consisted of β-D-glucopyranose residues interconnected with (1→3)-glucosidic bonds. The positions of O-6 monosaccharide are joined by the side branches in the form of β-D-glucopyranoses and the terminal residues of β-D-galactopyranoses. The hemicelluloses of Pleurotus ostreatus also contain manogalactan. Complexes of hemicelluloses of both types of mushrooms contain linear α-(1→3)-glucan in small quantities. It has been studied how the molecular-weight distribution of products of limited hydrolysis of hemicelluloses depends on the conditions of their treatment with the enzyme with β-(1→3)-glucanase activity. The maximum accumulation of a fraction with a given molecular weight of 15–25 kDa was observed at a ratio of E:S = 1:45 and treatment time of 21 hours. A specific reaction with congo red has proved there is a triple helical conformation of the main chain of the polysaccharide for this fraction of carbohydrates, so the supramolecular structure of the molecule is preserved.