Chen Guijie, Bai Yixun, Zeng Ziqi, Peng Yujia, Zhou Wangting, Shen Wenbiao, Zeng Xiaoxiong, Liu Zhonghua
College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
J Agric Food Chem. 2021 Feb 3;69(4):1368-1378. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c06913. Epub 2021 Jan 22.
Fuzhuan brick tea (FBT), one of the unique dark teas, has various health-promoting functions. In the present study, one polysaccharide fraction, namely FBTPS-2-1, was extracted and purified from FBT, and its structure and potential immunostimulatory activity were investigated. The results showed that FBTPS-2-1,one of typical heteropolysaccharides, was mainly composed of Gal, Ara, and Glc with little molar content of Man, Rha, GalA, and GlcA in molar ratio of 46.59:22.13:13.57:8.20:6.02:2.12:1.38 and molecular weight of 748 kDa. The backbone of FBTPS-2-1 contained →4)-β-d-Gal-(1→4)-β-d-Gal-(1→, →4)-β-d-Gal-(1→4)-α-d-Glc-(1→, →4)-α-d-Glc-(1→4)-α-d-Glc-(1→, →4)-α-d-Glc-(1→4)-β-d-Gal-(1→, →3)-β-d-Gal-(1→4)-β-d-Gal-(1→, →3,6)-β-d-Gal-(1→3)-β-d-Gal-(1→ and →3,6)-β-d-Gal-(1→3,6)-β-d-Gal-(1→. The linkages of branches in FBTPS-2-1 were mainly composed of α-l-Ara-(1→3,6)-β-d-Gal-(1→, →5)-α-l-Ara-(1→3,6)-β-d-Gal-(1→, →6)-β-d-Gal-(1→3,6)-β-d-Gal-(1→, α-l-Ara-(1→3,5)-α-l-Ara-(1→, →3,5)-α-l-Ara-(1→5)-α-l-Ara-(1→, α-d-Gal-(1→3,5)-α-l-Ara-(1→ and →5)-α-l-Ara-(1→6)-β-d-Gal-(1→. Furthermore, FBTPS-2-1 could increase the phagocytosis of macrophages and promote the secretion of NO and a variety of inflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6, indicating noticeable immune enhancement activity. Thus, FBTPS-2-1 could serve as a potentially functional food to improve human health by modulating the host immunoreaction.
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