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ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2022

Determining Methyl-Esterification Patterns in Plant-Derived Homogalacturonan Pectins.

Yang Yu, Liangnan Cui, Xianbin Liu, Yuwen Wang, Chenchen Song, UnHak Pak, Kevin H Mayo, Lin Sun, Yifa Zhou

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Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yang YuJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Liangnan CuiJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Xianbin LiuJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Yuwen WangJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Chenchen SongJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
UnHak PakJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Kevin H MayoDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Lin SunJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Yifa ZhouJilin Provincial Key Laboratory on Chemistry and Biology of Changbai Mountain Natural Drugs, Engineering Research Center of Glycoconjugates of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Northeast Normal University · CNUniversity of Minnesota · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homogalacturonan (HG)-type pectins are nutrient components in plants and are widely used in the food industry. The methyl-esterification pattern is a crucial structural parameter used to assess HG pectins in terms of their nutraceutical activity. To better understand the methyl-esterification pattern of natural HG pectins from different plants, we purified twenty HG pectin-rich fractions from twelve plants and classified them by their monosaccharide composition, Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) signatures, and NMR analysis. FT-IR shows that these HG pectins are all minimally esterified, with the degree of methyl-esterification (DM) being 5 to 40%. To examine their methyl-esterification pattern by enzymatic fingerprinting, we hydrolyzed the HG pectins using endo-polygalacturonase. Hydrolyzed oligomers were derivatized with 2-aminobenzamide and subjected to liquid chromatography-fluorescence-tandem mass spectrometry (HILIC-FLR-MS

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endo-polygalacturonaseenzymatic fingerprintingHG pectinmethyl-esterificationoligogalacturonides

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