Polysaccharides of foliose thalli of Pseudocyphellaria clathrata (De Not.) Malme, a fungus lichenized with a green photobiont, were extracted and chemically characterized. The thalli were successively extracted with water and 2% aqueous KOH, at 100°C. After neutralization, the solution was subjected to freeze-thawing and Fehling treatment of the supernatant precipitated a structurally complex galactoglucomannan (GGM) that was identical to a similar fraction obtained from Pseudocyphellaria aurata (Ach.) Vainio, a fungus lichenized by the green alga Dictyochloropsis symbiotica. Isolated from the supernatant of the Fehling precipitation, was an arabinogalactomannoglucan (AGMG) that contained arabinose, galactose, mannose, and glucose in a 12:34:40:14 molar ratio. Methylation analysis showed 18 different structures, the principal being nonreducing galactofuranosyl end-units (25%) with the main chain composed by (1→3)-linked β-glucopyranosyl units, as seen by controlled Smith degradation.
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1 March 2005
Polysaccharide Production by the Chlorolichen Pseudocyphellaria clathrata
Lucimara Mach Côrtes Cordeiro,
Anderson Vesali Montai,
Philip Albert James Gorin,
Marcello Iacomini
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The Bryologist
Vol. 108 • No. 1
Spring 2005
Vol. 108 • No. 1
Spring 2005
lichen
polysaccharides
Pseudocyphellaria clathrata