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Pyruvated carrageenans from Solieria robusta and its adelphoparasite Tikvahiella candida

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Sixteenth International Seaweed Symposium

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 137))

Abstract

Solieria, the type genus of the commercially important red algal family Solieriaceae (Gigartinales), contains seven or eight species, three of which are represented in Australia. The cell-wall galactans of the most common Australian Solieria species, S. robusta (Greville) Kylin, were analysed by a combination of compositional assays, linkage analysis, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. They are shown to be composed predominantly of carrabiose 2,4’-disulphate units (the repeating unit of ι-carrageenan) and a significant proportion of 4’,6’-pyruvated carrabiose 2-sulphate units. The constituent sugars, pyruvate content, FTIR spectrum, and linkage and substitution patterns of the galactans from Tikvahiella candida Kraft et Gabrielson, an adelphoparasite of Solieria robusta, closely resemble those of its host and furnish evidence in support of a close phylogenetic relationship between the two species.

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  1. Ming-Long Liao

    Present address: CRC for Industrial Plant Biopolymers, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia

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  1. CRC for Industrial Plant Biopolymers, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia

    Anthony Chiovitti, Antony Bacic & Gerald T. Kraft

  2. Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, The Purdie Building, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST, UK

    Anthony Chiovitti

  3. Centre for Drug Design and Development, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia

    David J. Craik

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Chiovitti, A., Bacic, A., Kraft, G.T., Craik, D.J., Liao, ML. (1999). Pyruvated carrageenans from Solieria robusta and its adelphoparasite Tikvahiella candida . In: Kain, J.M., Brown, M.T., Lahaye, M. (eds) Sixteenth International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4449-0_48

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