Purification and identification of a novel heteropolysaccharide RBPS2a with anti-complementary activity from defatted rice bran.

A novel heteropolysaccharide RBPS2a with anti-complementary activity was obtained from defatted rice bran by hot water extraction, ethanol precipitation, and purified by gel chromatography after anion-exchange chromatography. This fraction exhibited more potent anti-complementary activity than other polysaccharide fractions. RBPS2a was eluted as a single symmetrical narrow peak on high-performance gel-permeation chromatography (HPGPC) and the average molecular weight was 90,000Da. We found RBPS2a contained 86.7% polysaccharide and 8.7% protein. The amino acid pattern showed that RBPS2a contained large amount of glutamic acid, arginine, aspartic acid, lysine, and alanine. The molar content of the above five amino acids constituted 59.31% of the total amino acids. Gas chromatography of absolute acid hydrolysate of RBPS2a suggested that it was composed of arabinose, xylose, glucose and galactose with a molar ratio of 4:2:1:4. The Fourier-transform infrared spectra (FT-IR) and (1)H, (13)C NMR spectroscopy analysis revealed that RBPS2a had a backbone consisting of β-(1→3)-linked d-galacopyranosyl residues substituted at O-2 with glycosyl residues composed of α-d-xylose-(1→4)-α-d-arabinose-(1→ and α-d-glucose-(1→4)-α-d-arabinose-(1→ linked residues. Furthermore, some of the fractions extracted and purified from defatted rice bran exhibited strong anti-complementary activity. Among these fractions, the purified polysaccharide RBPS2a had the highest activity.

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