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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 220, Issue -, Pages 247-255Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.05.076
Keywords
Arabinogalactan-protein; Polysaccharide; Gum exudate, Meryta sinclarii; Puka
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- Massey University
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A water-soluble polysaccharide (type II arabinogalactan-protein) extracted from the gum exudate of the native New Zealand puka tree (Meryta sinclairii), was characterised for its molecular, rheological and physicochemical properties. In 0.1M NaCl, the weight average molecular weight (Mw) of puka gum is 5.9x106 Da with an RMS radius of 56 nm and z-average hydrodynamic radius of 79 nm. The intrinsic viscosity of the polysaccharide is 57 ml/g with a coil overlap concentration 15% w/w. Together, the shape factor, p, of 0.70 (exponent of RMS radius vs. hydrodynamic radius), Smidsrod-Haug's stiffness parameter B of 0.031 and Mark-Houwink exponent a of 0.375 indicate that the polysaccharide adopts a spherical conformation in solution, similar to gum arabic. The pKa is 1.8. The polysaccharide exhibits a Newtonian to shear-thinning behaviour from 0.2 to 25% w/w. Viscosity of the polysaccharide (1 s-1) decreases with decreasing concentration, increasing temperature, ionic strength, and at acidic pH.
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