Structural characterization of the acetylated heteroxylan from the natural hybrid Paulownia elongata/Paulownia fortunei

abstract

The heteroxylan from the hybrid Paulownia elongata/Paulownia fortunei is an O-acetyl-(4-O-methylglucurono)xylan with an acetylation degree (DS) of 0.59 and a molecular weight (M-w) of 29 kDa. The heteroxylan backbone is composed by (1 -> 4)-linked beta-D-xylopyranosyl units (Xylp) partially ramified with terminal (1 -> 2)-linked 4-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucuronosyl (MeGlcpA) and a small proportion of alpha-D-glucuronosyl (GlcpA) residues in a molar ratio of Xylp:(MeGlcpA+GlcpA) of 20:1. Roughly half of the beta-D-xylo-pyranosyl units in the backbone are acetylated: 3-O-acetylated (22 mol %), 2-O-acetylated (23 mol %) or 2,3-di-O-acetylated (7 mol %). ESI-MS and MALDI-MS studies of partially hydrolyzed heteroxylan revealed a random distribution of O-Ac and Me-GlcpA within the backbone. However, the frequency of substitution with O-Ac along the backbone is not uniform and the molecular regions that did not contain MeGlcpA substituents possessed an acetylation degree significantly lower than the average DS of the xylan. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

keywords

TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; ASPEN; WOOD; HEMICELLULOSES; SPECTROSCOPY; BIRCH; FIBER; ACIDS; H-1

subject category

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Chemistry

authors

Goncalves, VMF; Evtuguin, DV; Dominguesa, MRM

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