Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 60, Issue 46, Pages 11560-11566Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jf304364c
Keywords
mushroom; Lentinula edodes; heteropolysaccharide; structure; immuno-stimulating activity; toll-like receptor
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In this study, a new heteropolysaccharide, here called L2, was separated from the fruit body of Lentinula edodes. Chemical and physical analyses indicated that L2 has a molecular weight of 26 KDa and consists of glucose (87.5%), galactose (9.6%), and arabinose (2.8%), but it does not possess a triple-helical conformation. Stimulation of the production of nitric oxide (NO), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and interleukin 6 (IL-6) in RAW 264.7 cells showed that L2 has significant immune activities involving toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). Further studies demonstrated that the activities of L2 exhibited high stability in wide range of pH from 4.0 to 10.0, when the thermal processing temperature was below 121 degrees C. Our findings revealed that a new heteropolysaccharide without triple-helical conformation from Lentinula edodes shows immuno-stimulating activities involving TLR2 at modest pH and thermal processing conditions, which enable it to act as an active component in foods.
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