Structural Features and Anti-coagulant Activity of the Sulphated Polysaccharide SPS-CF from a Green Alga Capsosiphon fulvescens

Andriy Synytsya, Doo Jin Choi, Radek Pohl, Ye Seul Na, Peter Capek, Erika Lattová, Tomáš Taubner, Ji Won Choi, Chang Won Lee, Jae Kweon Park, Woo Jung Kim, Sung Min Kim, Jisun Lee, Yong Il Park

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Abstract

Previously, we reported that the sulphated polysaccharides (SPS)-CF, a water-soluble polysaccharide isolated and purified from Korean green alga Maesaengi (Capsosiphon fulvescens, Chlorophyta), is a glucuronogalactomannan based mainly on the monosaccharide composition determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis after 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (PMP) labelling of sugars in the acid (trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)) hydrolyzates of SPS-CF, which showed mannose (55.4 mol %), galactose (25.3 mol %) and glucuronic acid (16.3 mol %) as major sugars (Na et al., Int Immunopharmacol 10:364–370, 2010). However, the results of the present study re-performed for monosaccharide composition of this polysaccharide using, in addition to HPLC of PMP-labelled sugars, other separation methods, i.e. high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection (HPAEC-PAD), gas chromatography with flame ionising detection (GC-FID) and thin-layer chromatography (TLC), clearly demonstrated that the most prominent neutral monosaccharides of SPS-CF are xylose (38.6–49.4 mol %) and rhamnose (39.6–45 mol %), while mannose and galactose are present at a much lesser extent or in negligible amount. These extensive monosaccharide analyses, correlation nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) measurements confirmed the sulphated glucuronorhamnoxylan (ulvan) type of SPS-CF polysaccharide, whose backbone is composed of alternating sequence of 4-linked l-rhamnose-3-sulphate and d-xylose residues (ulvobiose U3s) carrying monomeric d-glucuronic acid or d-glucuronic acid-3-sulphate on O-2 of some l-rhamnose-3-sulphate units as the side chains. The SPS-CF exhibited significant in vitro anti-coagulant activity by which the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and thrombin time (TT) were significantly prolonged. The results of this study demonstrated that the ulvan SPS-CF isolated from Korean Maesaengi C. fulvescens can be considered a potential anti-coagulant agent.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)718-735
Number of pages18
JournalMarine Biotechnology
Volume17
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Sep 2015

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Keywords

  • Alga Maesaengi (Capsosiphon fulvescens)
  • Anti-coagulant activity
  • Monosaccharide composition
  • Structure
  • Ulvan

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