Anticoagulant activity of a sulfated
galactan: Serpin-independent effect and specific interaction with factor Xa.
Pectin is a natural polysaccharide found in the cell wall of several plant species, mainly composed by alternating galacturonic acid, rhamnose residues, and some arabinan and/or
galactan side chains.
Highly sulphated
galactan from Halymenia durvillei (Halymeniales, Rhodophyta), a red seaweed of Madagascar marine coasts.
High molecular weight glucan of the culinary medicinal mushroom Agaricus bisporus is an a-glucan that forms complexes with low molecular weight
galactan. Molecules, 15(1), 5818-5830.
2012) has reported the monosaccharide composition of AGAF is arabinose, galactose, glucose, and mannose, and identified AGAF as a type II arabinogalactan with [beta]-(1 [right arrow] 3, 1 [right arrow] 6)
galactan backbone.
Galactan sulphate from Aghardhiella tenera (146) and xylomannan sulphate from Nothogenia fastigiata (147, 148) were found to be effective against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Herpes simplex virus (HSV) types I and II, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and so on.
Possibly this antimicrobial activity was observed to the presence of arabino
galactan proteins and andrographolides in the ethanol extract of A.
The low frequency of hyperhydricity on a medium with agar might be due to a sulphated
galactan in agar (Nairn et al., 1995), being able to control hyperhydricity.