Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 1175.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20160066

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Rheological and Structural Characterization of Pectin Polysaccharides from Citrus Pulp

ZHI Zijian, ZOU Mingming, LI Shan, CHEN Jianle, YE Xingqian, CHEN Shiguo*()   

  1. College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Fuli Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang Key Laboratory forAgro-food Processing, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Received:2016-01-26 Online:2016-06-10 Published:2016-05-10
  • Contact: CHEN Shiguo E-mail:chenshiguo210@163.com

Abstract:

Raw pectin from citrus pulp was prepared with diluted acid extraction and ethanol precipitation. Its rheological behavior was assessed under different thermal treatments at different concentrations. Three polysaccharides, named P-0, P-1 and P-2, were isolated by anion-exchange chromatography on a diethyl-aminoethyl(DEAE) cellulose-52 column at 0, 0.1, 0.3 mol/L NaCl eluent, respectively. Their structural features were elucidated by determination of their molecular weight, sugar analyses, esterification degree analyses, Fourier transform infrared(FTIR) and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance(1H NMR) spectra. The results indicated that citrus pulp pectin was the typical shearing thinning non-newtonian fluid. The molecular weights of P-0, P-1 and P-2 were 752410, 286320, 131380, respectively. They belonged to the kind of acid polycose, which was abundant in uronic acid and low-esterified pectin with partial acetylesterification. P-0, P-1 and P-2 were mainly made up of rhammogalacturonan-Ⅰ(RG-Ⅰ) structure and their monosaccharides compositions were mostly glucuronate, galactose, arabinose, rhamnose and fucose at different ratio. FTIR and NMR spectra implied that P-0, P-1 and P-2 owned pyranose rings and exhibited both α- and β-glycosidic bonds.

Key words: Citrus pulp, Pectin, Structural feature, Polysaccharide, Rheological property

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