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Concerning lignin-degrading fungi in a substrate such as shredded corn-cobs, when will they start decomposing the lignin? Does it happen from the start or will it firstly take the readily available nutrients, such as sugars?
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Lignin-degrading fungi, such as white-rot fungi, typically prioritize the consumption of readily available nutrients (like simple sugars and other soluble carbohydrates) before turning to the more complex lignin component in a heterogeneous substrate like shredded corn-cobs. This sequential nutrient utilization strategy allows the fungi to conserve energy by using easily accessible resources first, which supports initial growth and enzyme production.
Sequence of Decomposition:
  1. Initial Phase - Readily Available Nutrients:When first introduced to the substrate, the fungi generally focus on metabolizing simple carbohydrates and readily available organic compounds, which require fewer resources and lower energy for breakdown. During this phase, fungi produce primarily cellulases and hemicellulases, which act on cellulose and hemicellulose, the carbohydrate components of the substrate.
  2. Transition to Lignin Decomposition:Once the simpler sugars and carbohydrates are depleted, the fungi begin to upregulate the production of ligninolytic enzymes, such as laccases, manganese peroxidases, and lignin peroxidases. The timing of this transition varies by species and environmental factors, but it generally occurs once the more accessible nutrients are significantly reduced, prompting a metabolic shift to utilize lignin as an energy source.
  3. Factors Influencing the Transition:Substrate Composition: A higher proportion of lignin may delay the onset of lignin degradation if alternative nutrients are abundant, as fungi will focus on simpler compounds first. Environmental Conditions: pH, moisture, oxygen levels, and temperature can influence enzyme production and activity, potentially altering when lignin degradation begins. Species-Specific Preferences: Different lignin-degrading fungi may vary in their approach, with some species beginning lignin decomposition earlier than others based on enzyme production capabilities and substrate affinity.
Enhancing Lignin Degradation:
To encourage faster lignin breakdown, some researchers condition substrates by partially removing simple sugars beforehand or applying mild physical/chemical pretreatments. These treatments make lignin more accessible and can promote earlier ligninolytic activity in fungi.
So, lignin degradation does not start immediately but follows the depletion of simpler nutrients. The fungi adapt by shifting enzyme production to meet the available substrate complexity.
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Hello,
can anybody recommend an analytical HPLC column, which detects and separates HMF and sugars/sugar alcohols properly? We have a RI detector.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Heiko
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You can use Amide C18 based columns.
C18 column can provide fast elution of HMF, and Amide column may retain the analyte for longer time as compared to other C18.
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I want to estimate total sugars in carrot and products developed from it. I have been using lane and eynon method. I could get the values for reducing sugars but not for total sugars. What is the procedure for total sugars..please explain
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Normally people claim to measure total sugars using reducing sugar methods after "inversion" of sucrose. Inversion simply means hydrolysis of sucrose to release glucose + fructose. You need to make the measurement before and after inversion, and you need to account for the extra mass when you make the hydrolysis (1 mole sucrose = 342g, after hydrolysis it gives 1 mole of glucose = 180 g + 1 mole of fructose = 180 g)
However, reducing sugars methods are not really appropriate for analysing total sugars and I would not recommend using such an approach. There will always be some error (either through underestimation of some sugars (for example maltose) or overestimation as is the case of the presence of oligosaccharides, and in particular in the presence of inulin or fructooligosaccharides - which will also be hydrolysed when you make the inversion and release more fructose + glucose). Far better to use a chromatographic approach, there are many published options.
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Our aim is to acquire data pertaining to soluble solids in the fruit; however, presently, our approach is restricted to modeling total sugars for conversion. Thus, we seek your insights on this matter
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As far as I know and if I did understand your question, there is no formula to make these calculations. The most you may do is a correlation analysis and get high correlations between these variables. You can't, though, interconvert directly - using a formula - results from two different processes - soluble solids uses light refractions resulting from the solids dissolved in the sample. Juice samples, for example, that also contain acids that will, as well, have an effect on the refraction. Now, total sugars are normally determined via a refraction index detector of a hplc or from absorbance or transmittance values read on spectrophotometer.
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I would like to ask you about the method for sample storage, extraction, sample preparation and analysis of saccharides and sugar alcohols in needles and leaves of forest trees by LC-MS (or GC-MS). I would need to suppress and inactivate the enzymatic reactions in the samples.
In my opinion, needles and leaves should be immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen after tear off. Then remove water from frozen samples by lyophilization, extract non-structural sugars by ethanol, remove chlorophyl from extracts and then analysis.
Thank you for your answers and help.
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Since you have them already frozen in liquid nitrogen you can probably skip the lyophilization step. Grind them in a ball mill to get a nice powder. As Kai points out, you'll probably need water in your extraction and definitely need it for your analysis if you use HPLC.
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The binding of the sugar-dye compound with a lectin should facilitate a shift in the emitted light that enables monitoring of lectin activity. Or perhaps there are other ways to monitor lectin activity apart from a heamagglutination assay?
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Nicolai
If you have the desired structures of the sugar-dye compounds, you can search the are avalaible or they can be made just for you!
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My name is Valeria, and I am currently conducting an experiment focused on the extraction and quantification of soluble sugars based on Sunkar 2010. I am reaching out to seek advice and guidance regarding my methodology. The primary objective of my experiment is to analyze the content of soluble sugars in various samples. However, I must mention that my experimental approach is destructive and I used fresh samples for the analysis. Consequently, I now find it necessary to estimate the dry weight of the samples from their fresh weight. but I wanted to seek your expert opinion on this matter.
Could you kindly review my approach and suggest any other suitable references that might be pertinent to my experiment? I would be immensely grateful for any guidance you can provide.
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To answer your question, yes, it is possible to make an estimation to calculate the dry weight of your fresh samples from their fresh weight. However, it is important to note that this will be just an estimation, as the actual dry weight of a sample can vary depending on a number of factors, such as the type of plant tissue, the moisture content of the sample, and the extraction procedure used.
One common approach to estimating dry weight is to use a conversion factor. This conversion factor is the ratio of the dry weight of a sample to its fresh weight. For example, if you know that the dry weight of a typical sample of leaves is 25% of its fresh weight, then you can use a conversion factor of 0.25 to estimate the dry weight of any new sample of leaves.
Conversion factors can be found in the literature or determined experimentally. For example, to determine the conversion factor for your specific samples, you could dry a small subsample of each sample and then weigh it. The ratio of the dry weight to the fresh weight of the subsample would be the conversion factor for that sample.
Another approach to estimating dry weight is to use a regression equation. This equation is a mathematical relationship between the dry weight and fresh weight of a sample. Regression equations can be developed using data from a variety of samples. For example, you could develop a regression equation for your specific samples by drying and weighing a number of subsamples from each sample and then using this data to develop a mathematical relationship between the dry weight and fresh weight.
Once you have developed a conversion factor or regression equation, you can use it to estimate the dry weight of any new sample. To do this, simply multiply the fresh weight of the sample by the conversion factor or plug the fresh weight of the sample into the regression equation.
Here are some references that you may find helpful:
  • Sunkar, R. (2010). Quantification of Soluble Sugars by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography. Methods in Molecular Biology, 639, 19-28.
  • Smart, R. E., & Bingham, I. J. (2014). Rapid estimation of leaf dry matter content without oven drying. Photosynthesis Research, 120(11-12), 439-444.
  • Martínez-Duro, E., Rubio-Cabetas, M. J., & López-Gómez, A. (2018). A rapid and reliable method for estimating leaf dry weight content. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, 256.
I hope this information is helpful. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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I have seen numerous excellent research papers where metallic nanoparticles are used as carriers for enzymes or acids in lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment. But is it possible where the nanoparticles alone will help in the breakdown of biomass into simpler sugars.
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Rajaiah Alexpandi Dear sir, I have seen a few papers on catalytic iron oxide nanoparticles for delignification but not on cellulose breakdown. Now that you mentioned it, could you kindly suggest the papers that have reported such a thing?
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I am presently researching the process of glycation in proteins and aiming to assess the effects of different sugars on proteins. My goal is to precisely identify the specific molecular alterations that occur when proteins interact with high levels of sugars. I would greatly appreciate any assistance in this endeavour. Thank you.
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To get at that level of detail will require sophisticated techniques. You could start by doing intact protein mass spectrometry to measure the increase in mass caused by treating the protein with sugar. That will tell you how many sugar units were added. Next, you could do proteolytic digestion and peptide mass spectrometry to discover on which residues the glycosylation occurred. Ultimately, it will be necessary to determine the 3-D structure using one of 3 techniques: x-ray crystallography, multidimensional NMR (using isotopically modified protein), or cryo-electron microscopy (for very large molecules).
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I'm currenty transitioning into using a microplate reader. Right now, I use DNS to determinate reducing sugars from a fermentation supernatant. Recently the lab acquired a microplate reader and I would love to use it for all my analysis. Any sugestions?
Thank you!
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You have scope
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what carbohydrates are not used by Escherichia coli for its metabolism?
Thank you
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E. coli K12 does not grow on citrate but I can't speak to other E. coli strains.
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I did ethanol production using 50g/L of glucose and xylose in fermentation broth. Now need to find ethanol productivity, their theoretical yield and fermentation efficiency, also consumption of pentose and hexose sugars. Kindly help me to get clear calculation (any papers or protocols) for all of this especially ethanol productivity calculation
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Hello, Merlin Sobia as I understood, you about the ethanol 7.2 %?
7.2% mean 7.2g in 100g or 72g/l
So, if you receive 72g/l ethanol from 50+50=100g/l monosaccharides solution it above the level of theoretical calculation with yield 72%:
If we carucate by equation.
Glycose = 2C2H5OH+ 2CO2 +Q (Energy)
Xylose = 1.66 C2H5OH+ 1.66CO2 +Q (Energy) (same as glycose)
by molecular weight glycose equation will be
180g/mol=2*46g/mol+2*44g/mol
at 100% conversation you will receive 92g/mol (51.2%) ethanol and 88 g/mol (48.8%) C02
100%= 51.2% + 48.8% so the theoretical maximal yield for ethanol is 51.2%
From 100g/l monosaccharides maximum the 51.2g/l ethanol can be formed.
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Dear community of ResearchGate:
I am thinking about conducting a literature review study on a topic related to physico-chemical or nutritional parameters in peppers (Capsicum spp.). Even though, as I am a beginner in this field, I am not sure what topic to focus the study on.
I woulg be grateful if could make some suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
Pablo
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In order to write a good review, you MUST be an expert in the area. While, currently there are tons of junk journals, which would publish whatever you submit, providing you pay them a publication fee. Evidently, this would be a waste of time and funds, but you decide.
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Bradford assay and BCA kit is unable to measure protein concentration due to the presence of some reducing sugars in the sample by giving high intensity color.
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باستخدام كشف باريفويد نقيس السكريات المختزلة
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Why is sucrose better than other sugars? I haven't found an articles explaining this question.
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Would the result be the same (cell membrane lysis) if we used other sugars like xylose for example?
Also, is the nuclear membrane also broken in the process?
Thanks for the answer Muna and Ayshwarya.
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Hello, I'm Panagiota Alvanoudi and I'm a PhD student. My question is about HPLC in a brine sample from table olives fermentation. I want to detect, identify and quantify acids and sugars in the sample. For the separation I used a cation exchange resin-based column Agilent Hi-plex H with an aqueous 5 mM sulphuric acid solution and a flow rate of 0.4 mL/min (oven temperature 65 oC, injection volume 10 μL). The detectors are a refractive index detector RID-6A and a UV/Vis SPD-10AV.
So, I used some external standards to identify the compounds, but there are two compounds with Retention Time (RT) 1 at 12,3 min and RT2 at 65 min, both with significant Area. The first one is detected only on RID-6A and the second one only on UV/Vis SPD-10AV detector. Has anyone found anything similar? Does anyone know which compounds it may be?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
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It is difficult to me
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I'm developing a lateral flow assay. My gold-antibody conjugate is stable according to UV-Vis measurements. The nitrocellulose membrane was striped/spotted on the same week as conjugation and testing; the membrane is unblocked. I'm running the strip in a "wet assay" format. I load conjugate then chase with buffer (negative) or sample+buffer. I'm using a novel camera-based reader to measure signal intensities. 
Over 7 days the conjugate is increasing in sensitivity across all antigen loading conditions INCLUDING the negative condition (this clears over time leading me to believe it's not actual non-specific binding). Because the conjugate is stable, I plan on drying down conjugate and running the assay "dry". I will be applying sugars and possibly look into blocking the conjugate pad and the membrane. 
I am just curious what are some possible reasons for the increase in signal over time in this specific format. Could there be some membrane curing effects? (membrane has been kept at low humidity). Mind you, my dose response curve has maintained with the exception of the upward shift. 
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Did you manage to solve your problem? I am facing the same issue
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I'm working on carbohydrates.
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Jyoti
Better to give out the structure for better answer!
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I'm running a 5-sugar mixture of Arabinose, Galactose, Glucose, Mannose, Xylose, on an amino column (Shodex Asahipak NH2P-50 4E), with a 80/20 ACN/water MP at 30C temperature and 1.000mL/min flow rate, with a RID detector.
All five sugars were present at first but were badly resolved. After switching to a 90/10, then to 85/15 and finally to 75/25 ACN/water, recalibrating the detector and purging the lines between each MP change, I saw no improvements. I also tried adding formic acid to the MP but to no avail. That led me to believe that there is something wrong with the column. So I ran 20 column volumes of ammonium acetate to recondition it(as per manual instructions), and switched back to 80/20.
Now, no peaks are showing except Glucose and Xylose, even after 15 runs. I tried bumping the injection volume from 10uL to 20uL. Still no peaks. At this point, I don't know what's happening. Do you have any idea? Any thought is welcome! Thank you!
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Hi.. everyone...
even me facing the same. I cannot find any peaks. Is there any settings that should be changed or can any one tell how to identify whether the detector is okay or not
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Hello, I'm trying to make media for S. cerevisiae that contains everything it needs to survive except any kind of sugar. The goal is to make stock without sugar then add in specific sugars of our choice. This is to research a gene believed to function in the metabolism of complex sugars, so we need to starve the yeast of all but specific complex sugars to test if that's actually its function.
Does anyone know how to essentially make YPD from scratch so that we have the option of leaving out any sugar containing ingredients? Thank you!
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to be 100% sure that there is no carbohydrate in the medium I would NOT USE YPD. There might be something (although in low amounts) in peptone and yeast extract. WI do recommend to use chemically defined minimal medium, such as Yeast Nitrogen Base, which is available from various suppliers.
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Good day Scholars,
Studies have it that soluble sugars contents are more accumulated in the K+-deficient leaves, compared to the moderate or high K+ medium. Contrary to this, we found reduced soluble content in K+-deficient leaves (seedling stage).
What could be the possible reasons for such a contrary report?
Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
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One often obtains results opposite from what is intuitively expected. I found birds dispersed seeds that were less viable than those left behind, for example. To ask what is the reason is teleological because there is no reason since we can never know unless the plant could speak or God told us. It is only possible to ask what or how, not why, in science experiments. So explain what you found and how you obtained your result and leave it at that :)
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How do sugars stabilize protein via preferential exclusion?
Why are sugars excluded from the surface of proteins?
What impact does it have on protein stabilization against heat denaturation?
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the main sugar associated with heat shock recovery and heat tolerance, trehalose, has a very complex mode of action, see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41419-018-0749-9#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20suggested%20mechanisms,in%20the%20dehydrated%20condition9.
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Hello,
Recently I have been getting an extremely unstable baseline throughout the runs I have been performing. I allow the HPLC to calibrate for about an hour by just running mobile phase at the flow rate we use for our method. I also clear the RID detector by running the mobile phase at the same flow rate through the RID channel by opening it using the software. The UV baseline is also unstable.
I have also a noticed a problem where the elution times vary greatly between samples within the same sequence. The difference can be as high as 7 minutes. I switched columns and am still receiving the same problems.
Does anyone know how to fix these issues?
Flow rate - 0.6 ml / minute
mobile phase - 5 mm H2S04
Column and RID Temperature - 55 C
Our samples are mixtures of sugars diluted 1:5 in 16 mm NaOH.
I attached an image of what the peaks look like.
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Hi Chris
I am facing similar issues of baseline stability and varying retention times. what I understand is RID is highly sensitive to temp and it takes a good amount of time to stabilise the baseline. I am operating at 40 degress both column oven and detector.
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We intend to separate the mixture of three glycosilated flavonoids having two sugars units, each, according to their LCMS profiles.
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Depending on the gradient you used for your scouting run, they may be well-resolved for preparative LC.
You didn't mention the solvents used for your analytical run, but, assuming acetonitrile, try methanol or tetrahydrofuran. You didn't mention solvent modifiers, but if you didn't use any, try TFA to keep the phenolic groups protonated, and less polar to allow more resolution from the glycosylated compounds.
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We are taught when naming sugars to determine if they are D or L isomers by looking at the last stereogenic carbon (furthest from the carbonyl) to determine the stereochemistry that we give the molecule on the whole. Why do we look at that carbon in particular? Is it just arbitrary, or is there a specific reason behind it? Is it just a coincidence that the vast majority of sugars found in nature are D isomers?
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D _and L notation provides a quick shorthand for designating enantiomers.D _Glucose is enantioner of L_Glucose for example .As L_Alanine is enterntoner of D_ D_Alanine.if the OH on the bottom chiral center points to the left,it is refeerred toas L.
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I want to perform some experiments with sugars like (sucrose, etc) although it is said that sucrose should be stored at low temperatures. But will there be any issue if I prepare the sample 1day before the experiment? Will the samples get contaminated? Will their microbial deterioration? I am not using any protein in the samples so is it ok to do the measurements in this time gap?
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2/26/22
Dear Behera,
Paul Korner gave you a very good answer to your question. Microbes can grow in any sugar, not just sucrose, if it is stored at room temperature long enough. It's not good idea to leave sugar solutions at room temperature for too long.
Sucrose is extremely soluble in water and dissolves very quickly. At safe thing would be to make up your sucrose solution shortly before you need to use it. Alternatively, you can prepare it in advance and freeze it. In the frozen state, it will remain stable indefinitely.
The fructose moiety of sucrose is in the form of a furanose (5-membered ring), whereas the glucose portion is in the form of a pyranose (6-membered ring). The furanose moiety makes sucrose more reactive and more susceptible to acid hydrolysis than some other disaccharides; however, the hydrolysis is definitely not an instantaneous reaction, and requires some heat to occur. If it won't interfere w/ the work you plan to do with it, you can always prepare your sucrose solution in a buffer, e.g., PO4 buffer at ~pH 7. Sucrose is a neutral substance, i.e., it has essentially no acidity or basicity, so a PO4 concentration of ~25-50 mM will be more than sufficient to maintain the desired pH.
I hope this information helps you.
Bill Colonna Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA wcolonna@iastate.edu
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I am trying to study on minerals, amino acids, vitamins and enzymes of different fruit juices/natural syrups. However, because of a high concentration of polysaccharides and sugars (e.g., glucose and fructose), it is difficult to get high concentrations of the interested above compounds. Moreover, most of available procedures are performed under intensive conditions (e.g., using acidic and alkaline conditions) or expensive (e.g., HPLC). Could you please guide me in this respect?
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What worked for me in the past was to treat the sample with a cation exchanger. Any compound interacting with the cation exchange resin will be retained, while the carbohydrates will pass. Then elute the "cationic" species of the resin and perform the analytical determination you need.
Treatment with an anion exchanger will work similarly if you keep the sample pH below 12. Most carbohydrates deprotonate at pH > 12 and would therefore be retained. We used commercially available ion exchange resin in bulk and prepacked SPE cartridges depending on the specific workflow demands.
To create a proof of principle, I'd suggest the bulk approach first - usually less expensive. Once you know the general route to take for your sample, switch to the SPE cartridges - I would suggest.
I hope this helps!
Good luck with your research!
Cheers
Detlef.
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What buffer can be used for dry storing magnetic beads coupled with proteins? I saw some reports using sugars or PEG8000 but with many details on the formulation.
Thank you,
David
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One protocol is to add sugar to your buffer at 1-5% level. Sucrose is commonly used. Trehalose is more expensive but may give better product stability. The are more complex formulations which you'll find by looking at any freeze drying methodology (I appreciate you probably won't do freeze drying here) but the simplest thing is to add sugar and do some stability tests with and without sugar at varying levels. To find the best buffer also requires you to do some trials, but I'd keep it simple and use a common lab buffer at around neutral pH, probably quite weak (10-20mM). You'll have to experiment with salt addition and check whether it helps or hinders. Presumably you will drive most liquid off by centrifugation, in which case 150mM salt may be fine.
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I have been carrying out some research in order to explain the methanol extraction of sugar in plant extracts. I have found many publications that use methanol as an extraction reagent for soluble sugars in plant solutions but I am struggling to find the molecular explanation of this technique, in order to use it for a university paper.
Could anyone explain to me how this reaction works and provide me a little bibliography in order to use it for the paper?
Thank you in advance.
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Please I need a step-by-step guide (protocol) on how to determine the following parameters in plant tissue:
a. Sucrose
b. Soluble sugars
c. Starch
d. Sucrose-phosphatase
e. Sucrose synthase
f. Invertase
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I need to saccharify wheat straw in order to utilize sugars from it as growth media.
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Thank you, sir.
I did treat wheat straw with NaOH solution and neutralized it with HCl. I also performed Molisch's test, which came positive for carbohydrates. So, I hope to estimate sugar concentration now.
Currently, I don't have cellulase and I was hoping for an alternative.
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Hello colleagues
I want to identify sugars units in polysaccharide, I used HPLC RI :
50 Mg of gum powder was added to 8 ml H2SO4 and heated at 100 °C
After that neutrilization
5 ul injected to HPLC system.
But I had no results
Please, help me
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Asma Foufou I think your should not have a problem separating the sugars with an NH2 column. So I have a few other points for you to consider:
Ensure that the SOP you are using does not lead to over-hydrolysis of your sugar compounds. The NREL laboratory protocol for sugar determination in biomass uses 4% H2SO4 for one hour at 121 degrees Centigrade to break poly-saccharides into monomer units. With high concentration H2SO4 at 100 degrees C you may see too much degradation and lose your sugars.
Also, ensure that the neutralization agent does not chelate with your sugar unit.
Lastly, run a method with a longer detection window OR observe your live window during the hour after injection to determine if this is a retention time issue. If you see compounds that are retaining too long for your detection time then consider adjusting the ratios of the eluent.
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I need this for my research purpose and also the reason for choosing syrup if possible. is it possible to prepare from natural sugars. if possible please suggest some related articles on it along with preservatives used.
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"Simple syrup" is about 67% sucrose and water activity ~0.85. You could try parabens
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How to calculate the total reducing sugars and glucose yield after the enzymatic sachharification of biomass?
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I've been running autodock to see how certain sugars, such as malate, and citrate bind to a protein of interest. Everything is goes great until the actual step where I run autodock, and it returns the error "The two atoms defining torsion 2 are the same". I'm not exactly sure what is going on, or how to fix it. It seems to be an issue of these ligands, because if I run the exact same code with other ligands, it works fine (granted the other ligands don't bind ideally to the protein, as they're not supposed to).
Is it because these ligands I'm testing are symmetrical so as it's the different torsions, it comes across an identical torsion and then returns that error
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Hii Nathan Ricks I was also getting this same error during docking. This problems occurs because of some error in SDF file. Draw your structure in Chemdraw and save as PDB then use this PDB file for docking. I did the same and my problem was solved. Might be after doing this your problem will be solved.
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I was intented to do analysis for the quantification of sugars in food. As a initial step I have standardized the HPLC. Now I am started injusting the standards
For example : As a first standard I am injucting sucrose with various ppm levels. The detector used in RI and the column is NH2 column. The lower levels upto 10 ppm of sucrose standard is getting detected.
Now what should I do for the quantitative analysis of the same sugar present in the samples.
I am a beginner and I need a brief explaination
I need explaination regarding the LOQ and LOD
I need detailed explaination on quantification from the very basic step
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For the determination of reducing sugars the method with 1% DNSA seems fine, but two wavelengths at 540 nm (maximum absorbance?) And 575 nm are recommended as described by Miller 1959 in the original paper. Please tell me: 540 or 575 nm, which might be the right one?
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Thanks for the reply, but I would like some scientific substantiation. Indeed 540 is more often used, but 575 nm is also used. If possible, please provide some scientific explanations. Thank you.
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I am working on Vigna radiata-microbes interactions. I want to know about the names of proteins present in root exudates of plants (Vigna radiata to be very specific) that attract PGPR.
So far reading various literature, I got the names of amino acids and sugars but not the proteins. Any help regarding this will be highly appreciated.
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How nature and properties of root exudates dictate the rhizosphere microbial diversity ..?
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Any condition available to use specific anomeric sugar for reaction? 
Example; D-glucose exists as a mixture of 36% α- and 64% β-
How can I selectively use 36% α- only or 64% β- for further experiment. 
Any enzymatic or chemical procedures to use them specifically would be of great help. 
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Cool it down.
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I need to analyze sugars in freeze-dried food using GC-FID. I don't see any new techniques for this. I see this mainly done by HPLC-ELSD and RID. I've seen old technique whereby pyridine is used, then oximated, then derivatized. I also heard that sugars can be extracted with MeOH:water, but then I need to dry extract. Then derivatize. Problem is removing water and drying.
Any help is appreciated.
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Kindly check the following link that may be useful:
Recent Techniques in Nutrient Analysis for Food Composition Database
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I am trying to confirm the enzyme activity of a cloned endoglucanase gene under inducible promoter gal1 which is transformed into the S. cerevisiae. first I confirmed the expression of the endoglucanase through use of CMC plate and red-Congo staining in comparison to control (empty vector).
my question is when i will do then induction to express the gene, I should use galactose and the DNS assay quantify the free sugars, so the supernatnt will contains galactose and the DNS-assay will not allow correct quantification of free sugar?
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Hello everyone,
I am working with cranberry plants, and I grow them with plant growth media containing Gelzan.
Growth media that I am using for my experiments contain different percentages of N, P and K. I must understand what gelzan contains to understand plants growing under different growth media.
I was wondering what does Gelzan contain? Does it have any nitrogen in it?
It would be great if someone can let me know if they know what gelzan contains.
Note: I contacted Sigma people, and they mentioned sugars in Gelzan. I am particularly interested in if gelzan contains any nitrogen in it.
Thank you all in advance!
Bhagya
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Can I use DNS assay for determining the activity of a glucosidase using cellobiose as the substrate? My DNS standard curve has an lower limit of 100ug glucose/ml and upper limit of 800ug glucose/ml. The total cellobiose amount I'm taking for an assay is 342ug/ml. Can I use the DNS assay? Normally, when cellobiose is the substrate GOD-POD assay is preferred. Are there any references where DNS is used for cellobiose assay? Any references?
Cellobiose also produces the reddish deep brown color by default. So the blanks themselves are very dark. But normalizing this, can we still detect spectrophotometrically more reducing ends produced from breakdown of cellobiose into glucose by the glucosidase? Any reports or personal experience regarding the same?
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Pedro Nakasu
. I've seen this article. Maybe a comparison of GOD-POD vs DNS would be more useful to my query. Do post if you have read something along those lines.
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Can any give suggestions regarding to the calculation of estimation of Total soluble sugars or total carbohydrates by anthrone method.
Please help me
Thanking you.
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I am trying to separate glucose ,fructose ,mannose ,galactose ,arabinose and xylose in Agilent 1260 infinity HPLC system which has DAD and RID detectors by using Zorbax NH2 column.
conditions maintained are
Mobile phase is 75% ACN and 25% water.
flow rate:0.4ml/min
Temperature of column and detector are 35 0C.
sample injection: 5 micro liter.
sample concentration: 1 mg/ml
But I am unable separate these sugars. Could you please suggest me what parameters I should change here?
We also have some columns like poroshell 120 HILIC-Z ,C-18.Which column you will suggest for separation of sugars among these three columns?
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I'm currently experiencing problems during acid hydrolysis for total amino acid analysis as my first samples contain high amounts of sugar (I get too low results back). I therefore had the idea to precipitate nitrogenous materials (amino acids, protein/peptides) to remove sugars. I found the following method suggested in another question:
1. Reduce pH with TFA
2. Cool to 4*C (Celsius)
3. Add excess of Dimethylether or petroleum ether
4. Centrifuge
Can anyone confirm this is a good idea or does anyone have a better suggestion?
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I am trying to extract phytochemicals from cane juice. I have tried lyophilization and SALLE techniques but the final product is too sticky and sugars are hindering any further extraction. I have also tried extraction with butanol but sugars are still a problem.
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Specifically, what are the mono, di, and other major oligo saccharides present in hemp or cannabis? Glucose, xylose... and?
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Hello,
I'm working on a type of titration which is the Luff-Schoorl method.
I already do the titration of glucose and saccharine (with hydrolysis to get glucose).
But now, I'm working on wood (pine pinaster species) hydrolysis in order to get reducing sugars.
Problem, wood is composed of multiple reducing sugars like glucose, xylitol, galactose, arabinose and mannose.
So, I wanted to know if I can use the average molecular weight of these sugars thanks to their mass fraction and their molecular weight.
Thank you for your answers,
Best regards.
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I would like to ask a question about two way anova using SPSS. I want to compare 13 grape varietes (Independent Variable) for some physicochemical characteristics (e.g. reducing sugars which is the dependent variable) and simoultaneously according to their type (Independent Variable). Type means the colour. I used two - way anova and here is the problem. My first problem is that at the table of tests between subject effects the raw type has a (-) and the second problem is Levene's test which is significant. As for the first problem I don't know what to do to solve it. Without this Can i move on to the two - way anova procedure or it is necessary?? As for the Levene's test after hours of reading I figured out that the only thing I can do for the post hoc comparison is to use a common test such as Tukey's test and compare them using p value <0,01 instead of 0,05. Then I thought I could do one way anova twice separetaly for each Indepedent variable but of course levene's test is significant again. I figured out that I can use for the post hoc comparison a test for equals not assumed such as Tahmane's T2 and solve my problem but these tests doesn't give a table for homogeneous subsets so I have to compare one by one alone. Is there any advice for all of these?? I'm attaching a print screen for my first problems.
Thank you very much.
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Thank you all very much for your help!
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Why do we need to prepare the oxime derivates (hydroxylamine.HCL catalyzed) of carbohydrates and organic acids prior to silyl (TMS/hexamethyldisilazane) application for GC analysis? What is the principle behind the reaction and why organic base-catalyzed direct derivatization using, silyl agents doesn't work?
Could you suggest any more practical, high yielded, and direct derivatization protocol for polar compounds (especially for sugars and organic acids) profiling at GC-MS?
Thanks in advance...
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I am doing biomass conversion reaction i.e. sugars to HMF in the presence of heterogeneous catalyst. When either lewis or bronsted acidic sites are present on the catalyst the yield of HMF is more but when both the lewis and bronsted sites are present on the same catalyst the yield of HMF is less.
Can anyone provide some suggestions or share some report where lewis and bronsted sites work in opposite manner
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Dear Tripti,
I think, it depends on how you do your experiments. Do you perform time-resolved trials or only investigate the HMF yield after one reaction time? Generally, it happens that HMF decomposes during the reaction and the decomposition rate is usually higher under harsher conditions. Under less harsh conditions, in turn the formation rate of HMF can be low. In both cases, you see lower HMF yields, but whether the reason is a very fast or very slow reaction, can only be identified in a time-resolved experiment.
For homogeneous catalysts, another reason is that many of them decompose depending on the solvent. AlCl3 for instance is hydrolysed into aluminates and HCl. Therefore, a mixture of HCl (Bronsted acid) and AlCl3 (Lewis acid) has a much lower pH value than the single catalysts, unless the concentrations are adapted (but then the Cl and Al concentrations are different). At a lower pH value, HMF decomposes faster.
In heterogeneous catalysis, I don’t have much expertise, but I guess that the reaction rate of HMF formation and decomposition depends on the amount of catalytically active sites. Maybe the amount of those sites is either much higher or much lower in catalyst bearing both Lewis and Bronsted acid sites compared with catalysts bearing only one type of site?
Besides, it is also conceivable that heterogeneous catalysts affect the selectivity of carbohydrate conversion for reasons that are not directly related to the types of catalytically active sites they bear, but to pore structure etc.
Lastly, also the type of carbohydrate plays a role. Aldoses are usually less reactive towards HMF, but Lewis acids isomerise them to more reactive ketoses. If ketoses are used, they are isomerised to aldoses and the Lewis acid has thus a negative effect.
I hope this can give you some inspiration to solve the riddle. Maybe I could help you more, if you provide a concrete example.
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I have UV-spectophometer absorbance reading through DNS method. I want to calculate sucrose and reducing sugars. I have also had UV-spectophometer absorbance reading of standard solution too. I need calculation methods. please! Thanks in advance!
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Construct a standard graph of the standard solution by plotting the Absorbance reading against concentration. Then using the equation of the straight line graph (y = mx + c), extrapolate the concentration of your reducing sugar.
But I am afraid you cannot do that for sucrose. It's not a reducing sugar. You have to carry out a specific test/assay for measuring sucrose.
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I am looking for Fluorescence Labeling of saponins, which contains a free carboxylic group, a terpene ring, and various sugars attached by glycosidic linkage. I supposed to bind a dye preferably by covelent bond, so that I can quantify the intact drug in cell lysate. Any suggestion please.
Regards,
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Waqas Ahamd Hey, I just wanted to know if you were sucessful in labelling the saponins? If yes, it will be really helpful if you can share how to do it, as I am having same trouble.
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I am currently conducting analysis of sugars in carbonated drinks, I am curious because some of the samples that I analyzed shows to contain Fructose and Glucose, with the Sucrose as the only claimed ingredient as sweetener. I want to know if they also added High Fructose Corn Syrup or the 2 Sugars (Fructose and Glucose) came from the Sucrose in the carbonated drinks.
Thank you for the help! :)
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It is well-established that sucrose in carbonated beverages hydrolyzes to glucose and fructose. As mentioned by Goetze, above, the pH is typically very low. The pH is low only in small part to the dissolved carbon dioxide. There is a significant amount of phosphoric acid in many carbonated drinks.
Also, most carbonated drinks are shipped without temperature control. Depending upon how the beverage is shipped and stored, the hydrolysis can be significantly accelerated by heat.
See Figure 5 in Monsivais, Pablo, Martine M. Perrigue, and Adam Drewnowski. "Sugars and satiety: does the type of sweetener make a difference?." The American journal of clinical nutrition 86, no. 1 (2007): 116-123. (freely available on Google Scholar) to see a time course analysis of sucrose hydrolysis.
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I have a very thick date extract which cannot dissolve in a small amount of DMSO due to the presence of sugar
what techniques can be used to remove sugars or to get pure polyphenols or flavonoids?
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Dear research
How can you be sure that this viscosity is due to sugars?
Most of the materials that make the extract thick and difficult to dissolve are phenolic substances with high molecular weights, as well as high turbines with molecular weights similar to rubber, where they are dried.
These impurities can be eliminated by purifying phenolic compounds and separating them using the acidification of the extract solution.
One moleartic acid can be added to the extract up to an pH=2
Then the phenols are withdrawn using chloroform several times using separating funnel
Best regards
Dr. Naser Jawad
University of Kufa Hanan Sa
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For my research, I would like to extract glucose, sucrose, and fructose from the crowns of strawberry plants and quantify these sugars using LC-MS. However, I have not had much luck finding a decent extraction method in the literature. Are there any links to a suitable simple sugar extraction method for solid plant material to be used with LC-MS?
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You can check these extraction techiques; QuEChERS and matrix solid-phase dispersion. These are used for mostly pesticide analysis in fruits and I am not sure if the methods are sutiable for your analytes. I couldn't see any article which utilizes MSPD to quantify your analytes but you can do further research. If there is no such study and it works, yours can be novel by that aspect.
Regards.
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The purpose of the presence of phenol in the determination of sugars by phenol-sulfuric acid method?
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Thank you very much Prof.Dr. Luay A. Al-Helaly
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Dear all, I m extracting mono sugars from polysaccharides. I have already hydrolyzed my polysaccharide with acid treatments, now would you recommend me any method or formula with instrument to calculate mono sugar yield
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Khaled Kaid alright thanx
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I have access to a HPLC-FL system that I would like to use if possible. The other option I have is to use an old (mid-90s) ecd that has not been used in over a decade and would need to be serviced. Any info/suggestions would be much appreciated.
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sugars and commonly used HPLC systems do not go together well... I would try the electrochemical detector in PAD mode, but be aware that the older versions tend to have major drift and should be recalibrated VERY frequently; try and get a new electrode, they are more stable.
Sugars barely absorb so UV-Vis does not work, they have no fluorescence so fluorscen also doe snot work. RI could work, the detectors are fairly cheap but the senstivity is low.
If you do not have many assays I would recommend instead using the enzymic colorimetric kits.
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I was quantifying reducing sugars from pretreated rice straw using DNSA method.I have used equal amount of pretreated sample in all my reactions(0.5gm). While calculating the reducing sugar yield, shall I consider this 0.5 gm as the weight of solid residue added or do I need to consider the weight of the residue left after hydrolysis(less than 0.5 gm)
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12/5/19
Dear Binita,
The above responders have provided good answers to your question.
Something else to keep in mind: I assume you are pre-treating the rice straw w/ enzymes (e.g., cellulase, etc.) to release reducing sugars. When you do your calculations, you may need to apply a correction factor. E.g., If you determine the amount of glucose released, this has a mol. wt. of 180. However, in the original, unhydrolyzed polymer (e.g., cellulose), glucose is in the form of anhydroglucose with a mol. wt. of 162. The glucose gains an additional 18 mass units in the form of water during hydrolysis. You may want to apply a correction for this for the original starting material.
I hope this information helps you.
Bill Colonna Center for Crops Utilization Research, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA wcolonna@iastate.edu
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Magnesium is element after calcium is badly needed for many diseases
he kidneys are important organs that are charged with maintaining a balance of magnesium, according to a study published in the journal Biological Trace Element Research. But people with diabetes end up losing large amounts of magnesium in their urine. “People with diabetes may tend to be deficient in magnesium, especially if they have uncontrolled and high blood sugars, because their body may be clearing it out along with excess sugars in the urine,” Sheth says.
It’s especially worrisome if you’re on diuretics — more urine equals more chances for magnesium to escape — or elderly, Sheth notes. “As we get older, our stomach acid production decreases, and this can lead to a decreased absorption of magnesium from the food we eat,” so why we still need magnesium?
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Magnesium helps regulate blood sugar.
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Dear fellows,
I am cultivating microalgae and then I measure their chemical composition. In order to determine biomass dry weight I vacuum filter about 5-15 ml of algae (depending on growth phase) on pre weighted filters. After rinsing twice with 10 mL water, I dry them over nigth and measure dry weight.
However, when measuring carbohydrates (anthrone method), I find abnormal values (like more than 100% of dry weight is carbs). I don't see how i could overestimate sugars (i rinse every pellet) and I thought maybe that was the dry weight that I underestimated.
Is there a way that filtrating algaes could make me lose biomass?
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For a research recommendation about "organic" additives for semen diluents in bees and fish.
Many thanks, Omer
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In regards to Lipid: Cell membranes are altered in response to cooling with rearrangements and phase transitions that are only partially reversible. Essentially cell membranes become “leaky”. Membranes that contain greater ratios of sterol to phospholipid are more resistant during cryopreservation. Freezing and thawing results in lipid membrane changes and cells can take up lipid from the surrounding environment. Often egg yolk is added to media for this purpose and even egg yolk alone is protective. So lipid is added to protect cells.
Sugars are used to reduce the extracellular salt concentration. During freezing pure ice forms leaving behind salts which cause osmotic damage to cells. Sugars reduce this.
In regards to bees and fish or indeed any cells. There are species and individual differences to contend with. With expensive animals like stallions they often first try several different freezing protocols to work out which works best with that individual animal. So you see, a blanket model of bees or fish is unlikely to be the best method for whatever animals you are working with.
Try this link
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The fragmentation of Aglycone C-Di glycoside in negative ion will produced complicated ions, so for identification such compound we need fellow the behavior of the fragmented ion in term of priority,
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Valentine Mbatchou The C-Glucoside flavonoids have been reported in a lot of plant families Apigenin-Glucoside one these compounds for examples: Apigenin 8-C-α-L-arabinoside 6-C-β-D-glucoside
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Any recommendations for separation and identification of sugars?  Our detector is UV/Vis and mobile phase is gradient water/acetonitrile. Thank you.
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I used this method a lot. It is very reliable.
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What type of flocculants are used to clarify sugar juice in organic sugar production? At least in Colombia, we only know those extracted from plants.
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Nowadays we have tested cellulosic derivatives, functionalized with different substituents or grafted in several degrees, and they have showed very promissing alternatives for sugar cane juice clarification and flocculation.
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Hello, everyone!
I've been trying to study the effects of some N-glycosylations in a sugar transporter. The in vivo experiments have already been performed, but I've been trying to add some N-glycans to this transporter in silico as well. I have successfully modelled some of the mutants, but there is a particular one that I've been struggling with. This mutant has 2 N-glycosylations in buried positions, and the in vivo experiments showed that these glycosylations greatly impair the transporter function. The problem is that I've been successfully adding the superficial carbohydrates, but I cannot add them in 2 buried sites. Could anyone help me with ideas on how these sugars could be added? Computer programs that can do that, or ways that I could unfold the protein, add the N-glycan and refold the protein would be extremely useful as well!
Thank you very much!
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If you are doing comparative studies to your other systems, totally unfolding the protein of one would likely result in uncontrolled errors in your study. What are you currently using for the superficial modifications? Are you doing all-atom simulations?
Something the may be able to help, which I've never used or tested: http://www.glycosciences.de/modeling/glyprot/php/main.php
However, what I would personally use is Chimera which has Modeller functionality with a GUI. Here is some background information on how it can be used for modifications: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2014-November/010526.html
You will need the model of the carbohydrate and then can build a bond/remove atoms. But, you will need a pocket to place it. You can drag regions of proteins in Pymol if needed and then perform energy minimization steps in Chimera of side chain rotamers and the added segments. You should be careful to not build an unphysical configuration though and check for clashes in Chimera, where there is also a built in function to quantitatively search.
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I am working on parboiled rice treated with different temperature. I am following DNS method to determine reducing sugars concentration. suggest me any good extraction procedure.
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Evren Caglar Eroglu
Kervin Blanco Untalan Thank you so much Sir.
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I want to find articles that study the health effect of honey and refined sugars
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Refined sugar hampers matabolism and produces obesity and metabolic syndrome.
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I have some extracts with sugars in low concentrations, so diluting isn't ideal, and there's about a 17 % of urea (from the solvent). Can the urea damage the column or affect the analysis?
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I suppose, if your mobile phase doesn t containe urea, you can try to inject sample, bu your sugar must be highly soluble in the mobile phase, overwise inlet column frit becomes plugged.
If you have any doubts, read the instructions for the column or ask a representative of Bio-Rad
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I am looking to quantify total carbohydrate (separated by starch and other sugars), total protein and amino acids in a leaf sample using a spectrophotometer for analysis. Does anyone have suggested methods for extraction and quantification?
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I believe that increased volume no matter how many containers yields longer autoclave time. However I am being told it doesn't unless the volume is increased in the same container. (i.e.-2000 mL in one bottle versus 4 bottles with 500mL in each). If this is true I would like this explained logically. In addition, our autoclave chart says 45 min for 1L liquid, but we are using it for LB agar and broth and were told to only do 30 mins to make sure the sugars and other components aren't affected from the heat. Thoughts on this would also be appreciated.
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Hey, Julia. I see this question ocationally. And I wanna give some opinons from my side. I think the different between 2L in 1 bottle and 3L in 5 bottles is the contact area of the total water back. As teat might pass slower through water than air, so littile volume in each bottles may allow faster transition to all the water inside compared to large volume. The thing is the 5 bottles would be heated simutaneously, so that the question might be 500mL versus 2L under ieally heating condition. What do you think then? Whether my reply make sense?
All the best!
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I would like to know if there exists any microbe that could ferment sugars to pentanol. Is there a defined biochemical pathway for the production of pentanol.
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Maurice Expenyong good answe would you provide the source of engineered gene
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I am working on parboiled rice, For checking the effect of parboiling on rice color I have to determine the level of Reducing sugars.
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Hi, you might consider to use HPLC that is more sensitive than enzymatic methods and discriminate glucose and fructose. You can check this possibility in this paper
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I am interested in understanding the effect of thermal treatments on proteins denaturation into food simulant.
Actually, I have already performed tests onto acqueous solutions of different kind of proteins (BSA, whey proteins) but I would like to "complicate" a little bit the system in order to assess whether some other compounds (sugars, salts etc.) could have an influence on the induction of structure modification by temperature.
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Dear Manuele,
thanks for your kind reply. I know several methods for the evaluation of structure modification of proteins, the only thing I am concerned about is how to prepare a solution which can act as a "food simulant".
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Looking for typical values of sugars purity used in industrial fermentation.
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For industrial fermentations, undefined and complex substrates are frequently used as sources of sugars, for economic reasons. Cheaper substrates (such as sugar beet and sugar cane molasses) are advantageous since they minimize the production cost of the fermented products.
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Hi , can any body tell me what is the average life of carbohydrate column and how many maximum samples of sugars can be analysed on any carbohydraye column on an average. regardless of brand and care taken.
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The answer depends on the number of injections, the injection volume (uL), and the sample matrix! These columns can also be killed by Sodium ions. So there is no 1 answer to your question!
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We are collecting sludge from municipal waste, and my aim is to extract the reducing sugars from sludge for further processing. I tried with it, but without success. Is there any simple protocol to extract the sugars.
Thank you in advance.
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I agree with answer of @ Mariano Gutiérrez-Rojas. Ithink that there no reducing sugars in biosolids (I suppose that "biosolids" mean waste activated sludge).
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Vit
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Hydrolysis has been done by the use of a mixture of two enzymes (Cellic C-tec & Cellic H-tec), and it contains sugars like glucose and xylose which are the important ones. Our HPLC is broken, and I am looking for a method to replace it. Already I have tried DNS method, but its results show a high overestimation.
I want to know if there is a way to determine a relatively accurate content for glucose and xylose or not?
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You can also detect the components with high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) which gives accurate quantitative results.
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I'm trying to detect Sugars (frucose, glucose, maltose and sucrose) in honey using a HPLC method. This method is based on a existing method from an article. I'm using an altima amino colomn and a RID-A Detector. In the results fructose and maltose are two merging peaks. How can i seperate them? I've already tried a lower flow rate and different eluens compositions. My eluens was first (65:35) acetonitrile/water (from the article) and then (80:20) acetonitrile/water. There was no difference detected. I'm very new to the HPLC so i hope you could give me some hints on what i'm doing wrong.
Thanks.
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Using an Amino column under the conditions, you described means that you are running HILIC conditions. I am a big fan of HILIC, but sometimes it is a bit tricky. First: In HILIC acetonitrile (ACN) is the weak eluent, while water is a strong eluent. Hence, the samples must not be present in a pure aqueous solution. Why? Because if they are, you will co-inject the strong eluent, which in other words can and will cause the separation to "collapse." Hence my first suggestion is to prepare the standards with a high concentration of organic solvent (ACN).
Your move towards higher ACN concentrations is a good one, as this should improve the separation - remember ACN is the "weaker eluent."
Then: You might not like the following: If your samples contain reducing sugars, the amino columns tend to age, due to the formation of what is known "Schiff-base." Hence, how old is the column, and was it in use before for the analysis of sugars?
Consider the column temperature as well. Usually, we chromatographers tend to think in "the higher, the better" when it comes to temperature. Which in most of the cases is true, for all the benefits of reduced backpressures, higher efficiencies due to increasing diffusion processes... There is however a BUT...
But there are many examples out there where cooling the column (or generally speaking using the column at lower temperatures) had significant benefits. Keep an eye on the column backpressure as viscosity will increase with decreasing temp, but you should be okay with the high ACN concentrations.
Finally, HILIC is one way of separating sugars. And w/o knowing better, I'd assume that you are after higher concentrations (RI-detector!). You can use this detector also in conjunction with other separator columns like ligand exchange columns. Those are cation exchangers loaded with different cations (H, Ca, Ba, Ag). You can have such columns from different vendors, but maybe you find such a column in your institute.
A good starting point for method searches is this free database:
I did a quick search for Carbohydrates and HPLC, and there are several interesting HILIC entries.
I hope this is of some help.
Good luck with your research
Detlef.
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Actually, i have evaluated 10 different drugs impact in 4 different sugars to identify its role in hypertension. All drugs are with same concentration and same environment. In Control sample, no drug has used. I want to identify that does drugs inhibit hypertension in any of the sugar?
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Hello, since you are comparing more than 2 groups the best choice would probably be a 2-way ANOVA.
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I separated sugars using HPLC using RI detector, but can I quantify the concentrations of these sugars using the chromatogram?
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Yes. In a previous life I did it all the time. You need a 'pure' external standard to compare both the retention time match and peak area. ICUMSA (International Committee of Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis) have 'good' official methods. You will need specialty columns like Water's Sugarpak (or equivalent) or Biorad's Aminex (or equivalent).
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Is it possible to construct the CCR negative mutants of yeast for simultaneous utilization of biomass derived fermentable sugars without diauxic growth.
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Thank you for the reply Shiladitya Ghosh.
I will look into the review article and then we can have discussion.
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Hello everyone,
I am wondering if anyone had previous succesful experiences with specific LC columns and chromatographic methods to separate sugars and if possible, other polar metabolites too. We are specially interested in Glucolisis intermediates.
I tried HILIC in the past but with not much success. Too much chromatographic background. Those columns are painful... ;)
Cheers!!
Albert.
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I agree, HILIC sometimes can be a pain in the ... neck.
In my team we had best experiences with a method described here:
It works like a charm, and since 2005 a lot of things changed in carbohydrate analysis with HPAEC-IPAD... in conjunction with MS or MS/MS.
Biggest benefit: Stable column chemistry, different and matched selectivities (sugar alcohols, or mono- and disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides),being available for a long time. Lot's of applications, and stable not only in the hands of "specialists"...
Please have a look and let us know, if this helps.
Cheers,
Detlef.
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Hi, I'm looking to derivatise sulphated monosaccharides and disaccharides for GCMS. Normally I use pyridine-MSTFA but it doesn't seem to work for the monosaccharide (Galactose-4-sulphate sodium salt).
Is there a way to derivatise them directly for GCMS? It's okay if the sulphate group doesn't show a unique derivatisation when compared to a carboxylic or hydroxyl group.
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Hi Ernesto,
GCMS seems to work well for neutral sugars, but the sulphated ones are giving me problems in that they are not derivatising well, or the sulphate keeps them from volatilising.
If you have tried GCMS of sulphated sugars, please let me know the compounds you have tested and how the results went.
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We are currently running two different experiments in LC-MS: one of them with extracts with a high amount of sugars, and the other whose extracts have a high quantity of metals. The column of the HPLC (Hypersil GOLD Reverse phase C18) is being damaged/blocked when running this two experiments and the pressure of the HPLC highly increased, but we do not know which one is the responsible for that. Does anyone experienced know which samples stay in the column and cause this consequences?
The experiment is not finished so we will need to run more samples. Could you give me any advice to avoid the blockage?
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The term "sugars" is rather unspecific, as it could describe anything from sugar alcohols, mono-, di-, oligo- to polysaccharides. It would be helpful to know about the type of sugars that are present as your matrix components being co-extracted (is that correct?). Why? Because larger oligo- and polysaccharides tend to precipitate in organic solvents so that the increase of backpressure could be a particular indication. To check, I would dilute your sample extract with ACN or MeOH, preferably cold, and filter any precipitate away.
Since you are describing higher metal and "sugar" concentrations in your extract, I assume that your extraction step is involving a higher percentage of water, possibly it is completely aqueous. It sounds like a rather unspecific extraction step, like the ones we see so often in Food & Beverage analysis.
Maybe it would be an idea to consider a different (more selective) extraction method, that would prevent the co-extraction of "too many other things," rather than curing the adverse effect of the co-extracts?
I hope this helps!
Crossing my fingers,
Detlef.
P.S.: What are the analytes you're after?
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I prepared the standard solution for all sugars and got the specific RT for each sugar (Raffinose 7.8 and Sucrose 8.4). And I found Raffinose is high in leaves bcz its stress experiment but the problem in case of the sucrose sugar you can't identify the peak. I think this because of the high concentration of raffinose that make it not appear. Crop is Sugar Beet, Salinity stress experiment and sampling age is 30, 45 and 60 days
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i suggest you to post the HPLC working condition that you are following,
like flow rate, mobile phase , column stationary phase etc...,
Therefore a proper modifying of procedure can be made in order to remove overlapping.
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I have a list of common names of sugars but I am having trouble converting them into smiles. It's for a cheminformatics based script. For example, 2',6'-Diamino-2',3',4',6'-tetradeoxy-a-D-glucose, ... It would also help if someone could suggest a tool to convert these names into smiles or sdf as well.
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If you have a 3d structure, you can try to convert it with OpenBabel suite.
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When heating sugars and caramelizing them, is there a temperature point where the temperature reached ultimate degrades the materials?
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In this temperature energy is released in form of smoke and black soot.
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We are working on preparing a student lab. manual with the supplies in hand. To determine how much of the glucose is metabolized by bacteria in a broth, DNS method is recommended. The problem is we do not have 3,5 dinitrosalicylic acid in our lab, which has forced me to search alternative methods. Can you recommend any other spectrophotometric method we can use instead of DNS?
Thank you in advance!
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There are many methods for estimating reducing sugars..You can use following method-
Determination of reducing sugars by Nelson-Somogoyi method....Nelson (1944)
This is quite reliable method.
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If you are examining the relationship (using linear multiple regression) between concentrations of breast milk sugars and infant weight-for-age z-scores (using sex-specific WHO standards), should you include age and sex as covariates? Since age and sex are "inherent" in the z-scores?
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As sex and age can influence Z-score of weight/age, it is worth testing.
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I am interested in looking at amino acids in floral nectar. The nectar has a very high (≥1M) concentration of glucose and sucrose and a very low (≤100µM) concentration of free amino acids. I am wondering if there is a way to separate the sugars from the amino acids, which would allow me to concentrate the amino acids and make their analysis easier? Right now, the low concentration of amino acids in the nectar makes it very difficult to analyze them with assay kits.
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Erik
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University of Minnesota
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Dear Erik,
I think attached papers are useful for you.
Kind Regards, Homayoon.
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I will be looking into the sustainability of an algae value chain using Porphyridium as a feedstock. A biorefinery could produce proteins, sugars en phycoerythrin (PE) from the Porphyridium algae. However, which value chain should I use as a comparison scenario (=a reference case)? In other words, which (fossil) feedstocks can be replaced by the Porphyridium algae and why does it offer an advantage to produce proteins, sugars and PE from the algae?
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Hi there,
I would suggest either peat or lignite. Both have similar characteristics of typical biomass feedstocks such algae. Hope this helps.
Best regards,
BBN
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In some research, total sugars are larger than TSS and in other research we see TSS more .
What are the explanations for this?
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By definition TSS is referred as soluble solids dissolved in a sample taken and most common soluble solid is sugar. In general the relation between TSS and sugars is quoted to be directly proportional.
In my personal observation and according to some published papers there was a variation in trend. It could be due to different maturity stages of fruit when picked, different storage conditions and other fruit and storage related parameters.
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I have been working on optimizing acid hydrolysis of wood chips to obtain xylose and glucose for E. coli growth.
With the conditions I have been using (15%,20%,25% v/w) of acid and time (45,60, and 75 min) at 121 deg C. I was getting sufficient yields of sugars with some inhibitors mainly acetic acid and furfural. Concentration of inhibitors were below the toxicity levels for E. coli.
Filtered residue after hydrolysis was golden yellow in color (pH-less than 1.8) and I neutralized with 30% NaOH to pH-6.5. However, I found precipitate and then filtered it and used as a sugar source for E. coli growth. However, nothing grew and I concluded that neutralization is causing some unknown reactions with lignin to turn medium black.
Hence, I followed the most cited detoxification articles from Martinez et al., 2000 and Mussatto et al., 2004 using over-liming (with calcium hydroxide) and activated charcoal as detoxification methods.
Over-liming at pH-11 was successful, however, as soon as I tried to neutralized it , the medium turned black and I observed some precipitate as well. Also, neutralization resulted in extreme sugar loss especially xylose.
Similar case was observed with activated charcoal with pH-2 followed by neutralization.
Then, I tried to test the pH range for turning the hydrolyzed material black/precipitate. Where I found that at extreme pHs there was no precipitation or color change, but as soon as I neutralized it, some chemical changes is precipitating the acid hydrolyzed material. Since, E. coli grows at neutral pH, it is imperative to have a neutralized hydrolyzed liquid.
I believe that with the help of Research Gate expertise, I would be able to solve this problem.
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The cold hydrochloric acid route definitely gets the best yield, and was used by the Germans during WW2. I have used it in the lab to make sugars. The yields are better, industrially there is much less to do which is important for costs, the acid is recycled, by and large, and finally there are much fewer degradation products. Note the German chemists and engineers were pretty clever, and they went for the best yields
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I have a 30 aa peptide conjugated to the lipid in PBS and I want to lyophilize it to use later for making liposomes. Do you know how much sugar as lyoprotectant I have to add and what sugar is the best? My conjugate is very limited and I cannot try different ratio and sugars.
Thank you very much.
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Hello all,
I am studying the effect of sugars on rooting of Dianthus sp. in tissue culture for my internship report and I grew some plants on medium that did not contain any sucrose. The medium did contain 2.46 g/L McCown Woody Plant Medium, 0,1 mg/L IBA and 6 g/L micro agar. Strangely the plants grew just as good as the media that did contain sucrose, and after five weeks the are still growing and of good quality. Could it be that the plants are using the micro agar as a carbon source?
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It is unlikely that your plants are using agar as a significant sugar source. Sucrose addition to media tends to make the most difference in the very early stages of plant growth. Once the plant is established and growing then the plant will produce its own sucrose via the dark rections of photosynthesis.
It is entirely possible that your seeds have enough sugars stored within them to get the plants established and to the point where they are producing their own sucrose. There might still be phenotypes associated with sucrose content in the media (sucrose is a prolific signalling molecule after all) but I wouldn't expect your plants to die due to the lack of it.
Having said that if your plants look different under a no sucrose regime than previous experiments in your lab under similar conditions then it is possible that your batch of agar is contaminated with sugar and you would want to find a way to test that. I have never done this but my first try would be to soak some agar in cold water (the agar won't dissolve without heating but mobilisable sugars should dissolve), centrifuge your sample to pellet the undissolved agar and take the supernatant, then do a test for sugars (perhaps use Benedicts reagent)