Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2013, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 881.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20120883

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Structural Characterization of an Immunoactive Polysaccharide DNP-W1B from Dendrobium nobile Lindl.

WANG Jun-Hui, ZHA Xue-Qiang, PAN Li-Hua, LUO Jian-Ping   

  1. School of Food Engineering and Biotechnology, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • Received:2012-09-25 Online:2013-04-10 Published:2013-03-20

Abstract:

Dendrobium nobile Lindl.(Chinese name "Jin-Chai-Shi-Hu") is a species of Orchidaceae with distribution in Southeast Asia, southwest and south of China. In this work, a water-soluble heteropolysaccharide DNP-W1B with a molecular mass of 7.7×105 and specific rotation of 20D=+81.3°(c 0.3, H2O) was isolated from the stems of D. nobile Lindl. Monosaccharide composition analysis showed that DNP-W1B contained glucose, arabinose and galactose in a molar ratio of 6.2: 3.1: 0.9. The structural features of DNP-W1B were revealed by the combination of chemical and instrumental analysis, including IR, GC, methylation analysis and NMR. The results showed that DNP-W1B possessed a backbone of a disaccharide unit of with 33% branches at O-4 of (1→6)-linked β-D-glucopyranosyl residues. The side chains contained arabinosyl and galactosyl chains. Primary immunological tests in vitro indicated that it could stimulate LPS-induced B lymphocyte and Con A-induced T lymphocyte proliferation. Survey showed that DNP-W1B was a novel immunoactive polysaccharide compound from Dendrobium Sw.

Key words: Dendrobium nobile Lindl., Polysaccharide, Structure analysis, Immunological activity

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