期刊
CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
卷 207, 期 -, 页码 333-342出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.11.098
关键词
Arabinoxylans; Hydrogel; Structure; Plantago ovata; SANS; USANS; Rheology
资金
- Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- UQ International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project [DP150104147]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls [CE110001007]
The structures of two hydrogels formed by purified brush-like polysaccharides from Plantago ovata seed mucilage have been characterised from the nanometre to micrometre scale by using a combination of SANS and USANS techniques. These two hydrogels have distinctly different melting and rheological properties, but the structure of their gel networks bears striking similarity as revealed by USANS/SANS experiments. Surprisingly, we find that the dramatic changes in the rheological properties induced by temperature or change in the solvent quality are accompanied by a small alteration of the network structure as inferred from scattering curves recorded above melting or in a chaotropic solvent (0.7M KOD). These results suggest that, in contrast to most gel-forming polysaccharides for which gelation depends on a structural transition, the rheological properties of Plantago ovata mucilage gels are dependent on variations in intermolecular hydrogen bonding. By enzymatically cleaving off terminal arabinose residues from the side chains, we have demonstrated that composition of side-chains has a strong effect on intermolecular interactions, which, in turn, has a profound effect on rheological and structural properties of these unique polysaccharides.
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