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Partial characterization and antioxidant activities of polysaccharides sequentially extracted from Dendrobium officinale

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Six polysaccharide fractions (DOP30, DOP40, DOP50, DOP60, DOP70, and DOP80) were purified successfully from Dendrobium officinale by the ethanol precipitation method, and their physicochemical characterizations and antioxidant properties were investigated by the chemical methods, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), UV–vis (UV) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging ability, 2,2-azinobis-6-s (3-ethylbenzothiazoline sulfonic acid) (ABTS) radical scavenging activity, hydroxyl radical scavenging activity, and reducing power, respectively. Results estimated their weight-average molecular weight (Mw) to be 361.4, 242.6, 192.3, 100.5, 23.7, and 8.2 kDa, respectively. Mannose and glucose were the major monosaccharide components presenting in the polysaccharide fractions. However, monosaccharide compositions were significantly different among the DOPs, namely, DOPs with a smaller Mw contained more species of monosaccharides. All six polysaccharide fractions displayed antioxidant activities in vitro according to the antioxidant tests, and a small molecular weight of polysaccharides (DOP80 and DOP70) showed stronger antioxidant activities. The present results suggest that DOPs could potentially be used as a natural antioxidant, especially the small molecular weight ones.

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This study was supported by the grants from The Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province (BE2017374), National Key Technology R&D Program for the 13th five-year plan (2017 BAD 33B05), and the Jiangsu province “Collaborative Innovation Center for Food Safety and Quality Control” industry development program.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China

    Haoran Fan, Qiangran Meng & Lianfu Zhang

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    Haoran Fan, Qiangran Meng & Lianfu Zhang

  3. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 102488, China

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  4. Collaborative Innovation Center of Food Safety and Quality Control in Jiangsu Province, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China

    Lianfu Zhang

  5. Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK

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Fan, H., Meng, Q., Xiao, T. et al. Partial characterization and antioxidant activities of polysaccharides sequentially extracted from Dendrobium officinale. Food Measure 12, 1054–1064 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-018-9721-8

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