1230 results about "Arabinose" patented technology

The present invention provides polypeptides and polynucleotides involved in C1 assimilation in Methylophilus methylotrophus and methods of producing amino acids in microorganisms having enhanced or attenuated expression of these polypeptides and/or polynucleotides.

The invention relates to a method for producing a wood sugar product and a byproduct of ethanol or D-ribose or citric acid. The method takes hydrolysis liquid, wood sugar mother liquor and/or production waste liquid containing pentose of agricultural or forestry waste as the raw materials, comprising the following steps: (a) preprocessing feed liquid; (b) colour spectrum separation: separating thefeed liquid into arabinose fraction feed liquid and wood sugar fraction feed liquid; (c) removing mixed sugar at least containing glucose and galactolipin; and (d) carrying out aftertreatment on thewood sugar fraction feed liquid to obtain the wood sugar product. The wood sugar product comprises xylitol and D-wood sugar. The invention has low production cost and high efficiency and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

The invention provides a method of modifying soluble xylan which contains glucuronic acid and/or arabinose side chains so that it can be adsorbed onto other substrates. The method includes the steps of enzymatically modifying the xylan by selectively removing glucuronic acid and/or arabinose side chains from the xylan with α-D-glucuronidase and/or α-L-arabinofuranosidase, and allowing the modified xylan to adsorb onto the substrate. The substrate may be a cellulosic substrate like pulp or paper or a non-cellulosic substrate. The enzymes are able to remove a sufficient number of the xylan side chains so as to decrease water solubility of the xylan, induce xylan precipitation and allow adsorption of the xylan onto other substrates. A pulping process which incorporates modification of xylan and adsorption onto cellulosic material is also provided, as are products which contain the modified xylan.

The invention relates to a method for producing L-arabinose and D-xylose, which can simultaneously produce ethanol or D-ribose or citric acid as a byproduct. The method utilizes a hydrolyzate of agricultural waste, a xylose mother liquor and/or a production waste liquor containing pentose as the raw materials and comprises the following steps: (1) pretreating the raw materials; (b) carrying out the chromatographic resolution to separate the raw materials into an arabinose-stage liquor and a xylose-stage liquor; (c1) removing fermentation inhibitors which are impurities and unwanted bacteria, which have an inhibiting effect on the fermentation; (c2) fermenting to remove unwanted saccharides at least comprising glucose and galactose; (d) and finally, respectively carrying out the post treatment on the arabinose-stage liquor and the xylose-stage liquor to obtain the L-arabinose and the D-xylose. Steps (c1) and (c2) are arranged before the chromatographic resolution in step (b) or after step (b). The method has the advantages of low production cost and high efficiency, and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

The invention discloses a moon cake. The moon cake comprises a moon cake cladding and a moon cake filling, wherein the moon cake cladding comprises the following raw materials: 40 to 70 percent of wheat flour, 20 to 45 percent of sugar alcohol, 2 to 8 percent of L-arabinose, 5 to 20 percent of animal and vegetable oil or hydrogenated animal and vegetable oil and 0.2 to 2 percent of alkaline water. The technical problems of soft cladding and poor plasticity caused by the low viscosity of a sugar-free moon cake which takes maltitol solution as a cladding in the prior art are solved. Therefore, the moon cake has the characteristics of easily-shaped cladding, high plasticity and stable texture in baking process.

Disclosed is a process for extracting xylose and xylitol from a xylose mother liquor or a xylose digest, which comprises, using xylose hydrolysate or xylose mother liquid as the raw material, removing glucose through saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation, then imitating moving bed, using water as eluent, completely separating xylose from foreign matter such as arabinose, thus obtaining component containing rich xylose.

The present disclosure provides compositions comprising a plurality of agglomerates comprising a polysaccharide component comprising xylose and arabinose, wherein the ratio of xylose to arabinose is at least about 3:1, by weight; wherein the compositions further comprise:

• • (i) optionally, a first surrounding layer which surrounds the agglomerate, wherein the first surrounding layer is a hydrophobic layer; and
  • (ii) optionally, a second surrounding layer which surrounds the agglomerate, wherein the second surrounding layer is a hydrophilic layer;

wherein the compositions comprise at least one of the first surrounding layer and the second surrounding layer, and wherein when the agglomerate comprises the first surrounding layer and the second surrounding layer then the first surrounding layer is a preceding layer relative to the second surrounding layer.

In another embodiment, the disclosure provides compositions comprising a plurality of polysaccharide particles, wherein the polysaccharide particles comprise a polysaccharide component comprising xylose and arabinose, wherein the ratio of the xylose to the arabinose is at least about 3:1, by weight, and wherein the polysaccharide particles have a mean particle size distribution of from about 0.001 microns to about 150 microns, wherein the polysaccharide particles each, independently, comprise:

• • (i) optionally, a first surrounding layer which surrounds the particle, wherein the first surrounding layer is a hydrophobic layer; and
  • (ii) optionally, a second surrounding layer which surrounds the particle, wherein the second surrounding layer is a hydrophilic layer;

wherein the polysaccharide particles each, independently, comprise at least one of the first surrounding layer and the second surrounding layer, and wherein when the particle comprises the first surrounding layer and the second surrounding layer then the first surrounding layer is a preceding layer relative to the second surrounding layer.

The present compositions are useful for the treatment of a variety of benefits, including providing treatment for gastrointestinal conditions or providing other gastrointestinal benefits.

The present invention is directed to a method comprising a multistep process for recovering one or more monosaccharides from a solution containing at least two monosaccharides selected from the group consisting of rhamnose, arabinose, xylose and mixtures thereof by using chromatographic separation comprising at least one step, where a weak acid cation exchange resin is used for the chromatographic separation.

The invention relates to a clean technique for co-producing xylose, xylitol and arabinose from agricultural and forestal waste, belonging to the field of utilization of agricultural and forestal waste. The technique comprises the following steps: pretreating and preprocessing the raw material, and hydrolyzing in a thermophilic digestion mode to prepare a hemicellulose hydrolysate; after centrifugalizing to remove solid residues, carrying out TiO2-loaded activated carbon photocatalysis or ion exchange resin decolorization and detoxification treatment on the hydrolysate; carrying out MVR (mechanical vapor recompression) concentration treatment and gradient-cooling crystallization to obtain a xylose product and a xylose mother solution; fermenting L-arabinose unconverted xylitol fermentationhigh-yield strain xylitol by using the xylose mother solution as the medium to produce the xylitol; centrifugalizing to remove thalli, and carrying out decolorization and desalting treatment by membrane-process or resin adsorption; separating by using a simulated moving bed or chromatographic separation technology to obtain a xylitol phase and an L-arabinose phase; and carrying out MVR or vacuum concentration treatment on the two phases, and crystallizing in a gradient programmed cooling mode to respectively obtaining a xylitol product and an L-arabinose product, wherein the two mother solutions can be recycled.

This invention discloses a method for synthesizing nelarabine. The method comprises: utilizing 6-chloroguanosine as the raw material, and performing chemical synthesis to convert ribofuranose configuration into arabinofuranosyl configuration and obtain nelarabine. The method has such advantages as abundant raw materials, simple process, easy operation and high yield, and is suitable for industrial production.

Methods are disclosed for increasing the level of soluble C₅ saccharides produced from lignocellulosic biomass comprising acidifying fractionated lignocellulosic biomass to prevent the recondensation of soluble C₅ saccharides, including C₅ oligosaccharides and xylose and arabinose monomers, to insoluble higher molecular weight C₅ oligosaccharides.

The invention provides oral liquid for alleviating a hangover and protecting a liver, and a preparation method thereof. The oral liquid is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 5-15 parts of root of kudzu vine, 5-15 parts of semen hoveniae, 0.5-5 parts of ginseng, 2-10 parts of lalang grass rhizome, 0-5 parts of hawthorn, 0-3 parts of sealwort, 0-15 parts of pueraria flower, 3-20 parts of glucose, 1-10 parts of xylitol, 1-5 parts of L-arabinose, 0.2-1.0 part of taurine, 0-0.5 parts of glutamine, 0-5 parts of resistant dextrin, 0-1 part of decavitamin, and 0-2 parts of compound amino acid. The oral liquid has the beneficial effects of good hangover alleviating efficacy and good flavor and mouthfeel; the problems of dizzy giddy and scattered attention after excessive drinking are solved; damages to the liver and kidney caused by alcohol are reduced; and gastrointestinal mucosa is protected.

An animal feed composition for reducing colonization of animal intestines by Salmonella and other bacterial pathogens, includes a polysaccharide containing cis-hydroxy sugar units or a derivative thereof, or the monosaccharide ribose or rhamnose, or a derivative thereof, and an animal feed. The polysaccharide cis-hydroxy sugar units may be one or more of mannose, a mannose derivative, galactose, a galactose derivative, galactomannans, galactosamine, fucose and arabinose. The polysaccharides may be incorporated into an animal feed in the form of a food gum or other biolpolymer.

The subject of the invention is superparamagnetic nanoparticle probes based on iron oxides, to advantage magnetite or maghemite, with modified surface, coated with mono-, di- or polysaccharides from the group including D-arabinose, D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose, lactose, maltose, dextrans and dextrins, or with amino acids or poly(amino acid)s from the group including alanine, glycine, glutamine, asparagine, histidine, arginine, L-lysine, aspartic and glutamic acid or with synthetic polymers based on (meth)acrylic acid and their derivatives selected from the group containing poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide), poly(N,N-dimethylmethacrylamide), poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide), poly(N,N-diethylmethacrylamide), poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide), which form a colloid consisting of particles with narrow distribution with polydispersity index smaller than 1.3, the average size of which amounts to 0.5-30 nm, to advantage 1-10 nm, the iron content is 70-99.9 wt. %, to advantage 90 wt. %, the modification agent content 0.1-30 wt. %, to advantage 10 wt. %.

The particles of size smaller than 2 nm with polydispersity index smaller than 1.1 can be obtained by a modified method of preparation.

Superparamagnetic nanoparticle probes according to the invention are prepared by pre-precipitation of colloidal Fe(OH)₃ by the treatment of aqueous 0.1-0.2M solution of Fe(III) salt, to advantage FeCl₃, with less than an equimolar amount of NH₄OH, at 21° C., under sonication, to which a solution of a Fe(II) salt, to advantage FeCl₂, is added in the mole ratio Fe(III)/Fe(II)=2 under sonication and the mixture is poured into five- to tenfold, to advantage eightfold, molar excess of 0.5M NH₄OH. The mixture is left aging for 0-30 min, to advantage 15 min, and then the precipitate is repeatedly, to advantage 7-10 times, magnetically separated and washed with deionized water. Then 1-3 fold amount, to advantage 1.5 fold amount, relative to the amount of magnetite, of 0.1 M aqueous solution of sodium citrate is added and then, dropwise, 1-3 fold amount, to advantage 1.5 fold amount, relative to the amount of magnetite, of 0.7 M aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite. The precipitate is repeatedly, to advantage 7-10 times, washed with deionized water under the formation of colloidal maghemite to which, after dilution, is added dropwise, to advantage under 5-min sonication, an aqueous solution of a modification agent, in the weight ratio modification agent/iron oxide=0.1-10, to advantage 0.2 for amino acids and poly(amino acid)s and 5 for saccharides.

The particles smaller than 2 nm with polydispersity index smaller than 1.1 are prepared by mixing at 21° C. 1 volume part of 10-60 wt. %, to advantage 50 wt. %, of an aqueous solution of a saccharide, disaccharide or polysaccharide, such as D-arabinose, D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose, lactose, maltose, dextran and dextrins, and 1 volume part of aqueous solution of a Fe(II) and Fe(III) salt, to advantage FeCl₂ and FeCl₃, where the molar ratio Fe(III)/Fe(II)=2. A 5-15%, to advantage 7.5%, solution of NH₄OH is added until pH 12 is attained and the mixture is heated at 60° C. for 15 min. The mixture is then sonicated at 350 W for 5 min and then washed for 24 h by dialysis in water using a membrane with molecular weight cut-off 14,000 until pH 7 is reached. The volume of solution is reduced by evaporation so that the final dry matter content is 50-100 mg/ml, to advantage 80 mg per 1 ml.

Superparamagnetic nanoparticle probes according to the invention can be used for labelling cells used in magnetic resonance imaging for monitoring their movement, localization, survival and differentiation especially in detection of pathologies with cell dysfunction and of tissue regeneration and also for labelling and monitoring cells administered for cell therapy purposes, in particular embryonal stem cells, fetal stem cells, stem cells of an adult human including bone marrow stem cells, olfactory glial cells, fat tissue cells, in the recipient organism by magnetic resonance.

The preparation of labelled cells proceeds by adding to the complete culture medium 5-20 μl, to advantage 10 μl, of a colloid containing 0.05-45 mg iron oxide per ml, to advantage 1-5 mg iron oxide per ml of the medium, and culturing the cells for a period of 1-7 days, to advantage for 1-3 days, at 37° C. and 5% of CO₂.

The present invention is directed to a yeast strain, or strains, secreting a full suite, or any subset of that, full suite, of enzymes to hydrolyze com starch, corn fiber, lignocellulose, (including enzymes that hydrolyze linkages in cellulose, hemicelhiiose, and between lignin and carbohydrates) and to utilize pentose sugars (xylose and arabinose). The invention is also directed to the set of proteins that are well expressed in yeast for each category of enzymatic activity. The resulting strain, or strains can be used to hydrolyze starch and cellulose simultaneously. The resulting strain, or strains can be also metabolically engineered to produce less glycerol and uptake acetate. The resulting strain, or strains can also be used to produce ethanol from granular starch without liquefaction.; The resulting strain, or strains, can be further used to reduce the amount of external enzyme needed to hydrolyze a biomass feedstock during an Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation (SSF) process, or to increase the yield of ethanol during SSF at current saccharolytic enzyme loadings. In addition, multiple enzymes of the present invention can be co-expressed in cells of the invention to provide synergistic digestive action on biomass feedstock. In some aspects, host cells expressing different heterologous saccharolytic enzymes can also be co-cultured togetherand used to produce ethanol from biomass feedstock.

The invention discloses a method for preparing xylose and arabinose by hydrolyzing lignocelluloses in the technical field of biological engineering. In the method, aqueous oxalate solution is used for carrying out catalytic hydrolysis on crushed lignocelluloses; lignocelluloses hydrolysate solution and xylose resides are obtained by solid-liquid separation after the reaction; the hydrolysate solution is neutralized to obtain oxalate sediment and obtain solid oxalate by solid-liquid separation again; the oxalate reacts with sulfate in an acidizing tank for regeneration to obtain the aqueous oxalate solution; the oxalate solution is used repeatedly to catalyze next batch of lignocelluloses raw material. The invention uses oxalic acid as organic acid catalyst and has the advantages of high conversion rate, strong selectivity, less side reaction, being capable of recycling, and the like, the oxalic acid can replace regular inorganic acid catalyst, and the invention solves the problem thatthe traditional technology has equipment erosion, evaporating equipment scaling, serious pollution and the like and can be used for hydrolyzing the hemicellulose in lignocelluloses raw material and used for preparing the xylose and the arabinose.

The invention relates to a method for producing L-arabinose, which can simultaneously produce ethanol, D-ribose and citric acid as byproducts. The method utilizes a hydrolyzate of agricultural waste, a xylose mother liquor and/or a production waste liquor containing pentose as the raw materials and comprises the following steps: (a) pretreating the raw materials; (b) carrying out the chromatographic resolution to separate the raw materials into an arabinose-stage liquor and a xylose-stage liquor; (c) removing impurities and unwanted bacteria, which have an inhibiting effect on fermentation, as well as unwanted saccharides at least comprising glucose and galactose; (d) and carrying out the post treatment on the arabinose-stage liquor to obtain the L-arabinose. Steps (c1) and (c2) are arranged before the chromatographic resolution in step (b) or after step (b). The invention has the advantages of low production cost and high efficiency, and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

The invention relates to a clean and high-efficiency production process for preparing xylose and L-arabinose and belongs to the field of application of wastes of agriculture and forestry. The production process comprises the following steps of: performing pretreatment on raw materials; hydrolyzing the raw materials in a high-temperature cooking mode; performing neutralizing treatment and performing centrifugal separation on solid slag to obtain xylose or xylooligosaccharide hydrolyzate; adding coarse enzyme solution into xylooligosaccharide solution to hydrolyze to obtain xylose solution; treating the hydrolyzate by Angle yeast; purifying by using active carbon and resin; performing recompression and concentration treatment on the purified hydrolyzate by using a mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) machine; crystallizing the concentrated solution in a gradient program cooling mode to obtain xylose products and xylose mother solution; separating the xylose mother solution by a simulated moving bed or a chromatographic separation technology to obtain a xylose phase and an L-arabinose phase; returning the xylose phase to the xylose solution to concentrate and recrystallize; reusing the xylose mother solution; performing MOVR concentration treatment on the L-arabinose phase and crystallizing in a gradient program cooling mode to obtain L-arabinose products; and reusing the L-arabinose mother solution.

The invention provides methods for the production of erythrose and/or erythritol. Preferably, the methods include the step of electrolytic decarboxylation of a ribonic acid or arabinonic acid reactant to produce erythrose. Optionally, the reactant can be obtained from a suitable hexose sugar, such as allose, altrose, glucose, fructose or mannose. The erythrose product can be hydrogenated to produce erythritol.

The invention provides conditioning powder suitable of being eaten by a diabetic patient. The conditioning powder comprises 6-12 parts of water-soluble dietary fiber extractive, 0.1-1 part of wheat germ extractive, 0.1-1.5 parts of soybean protein isolate, 1-3 parts of secalin, 0.5-2 part of vegetable fat powder, 0.2-1.5 parts of Chinese yam extractive, 0.2-1 part of sealwort extractive, 0.2-1 part of mulberry leaf extractive, 0.2-1 part of polygonatum odoratum extractive, 0.1-1 part of medlar extractive, 0.1-0.3 part of flaxseed gum, 0.5-2 parts of L-arabinose, 0.09-0.3 part of yeast and 0.001-0.006 part of zinc gluconate. The conditioning powder is low in carbohydrate content, has abundant nutrients, is particularly suitable for serving as food of the diabetic patent, has the remarkable hypoglycemic effect and the conditioning function, has the prevention and treatment functions on various diabetic complications, and particularly has the good conditioning effect on a diabetes type nephropathy patient. The nutrients of the conditioning powder are easy to digest and absorb. The conditioning powder is convenient to eat and good in taste.

The invention discloses an extraction process and application of peach gum polysaccharide (PGPSD). The process includes: water extraction and alcohol precipitation, protein removal by a Sevage reagent, dialysis, passing of a column with DEAE cellulose as the filler and other steps, thus obtaining finer polysaccharide (PGPSD). The PGPSD can be dissolved in water at room temperature, and is formed by connection of arabinose, mannose and galactose through a glycosidic bond. The peach gum polysaccharide (PGPSD) prepared by the process provided by the invention can reinforce the expression of insulin related transcription factors and glucose degradation key enzyme, has no toxicity to mice, and can significantly lower the blood glucose of diabetic mice.

The invention relates to a method for preparing bamboo dissolving pulp by improved prehydrolysis alkaline process, which comprises the following steps of: bamboo material preparation, in which bamboo is made into bamboo sheets and bamboo threads, the bamboo sheets and threads are washed to remove impurities and dust; pretreatment, which is for removing more organic and nonorganic impurities, and in which the loss of pentosan is less than 2 percent; prehydrolysis, which is carried out at an acid concentration of sulphuric acid and hydrochloric acid of 0.1 to 10.0 weight percent, a temperature of between 80 and 14 DEG C and a liquor ratio of 1:4-15 for 30 to 400 minutes; and alkaline process. The method has the advantages that: the performance index of the bamboo dissolving pulp meets the requirements of viscose fibre pulp and the like; the improved prehydrolysis process allows the major part of pentosan in the bamboo to be hydrolyzed; the hydrolysate can be used as a raw material for xylose, xylitol, L-Arabinitol, ethanol and other products; the improved prehydrolysis process lays a good foundation for cooking and improving the reaction performance of the dissolving pulp; little production cost is added, the treatment load and cost of waste are reduced with the recovery of the products of the prehydrolysis, and the comprehensive cost is the lowest; and the comprehensive utilization of the components of biomass is realized during the pulping process of the dissolving pump.

The invention discloses a bio-preparation method for production of high-purity xylo-oligosaccharide and coproduction of arabinose and xylose. The method comprises the following steps of: washing hemicellulose-enriched biomass, performing size mixing pretreatment, adding xylanase, performing enzymolysis, and separating and purifying to obtain mixed liquid glucose; concentrating the mixed liquid glucose until the mass concentration is 50 to 70 percent, and performing chromatographic separation to sequentially obtain AD phase, BD phase, CD phase and BD phase, and concentrating the BD phase to obtain a high-purity xylo-oligosaccharide syrup liquid product; concentrating the CD phase, mixing with cellulosic materials, drying, and crushing to prepare fiber feed; performing yeast fermentation on the AD phase to remove glucose, removing impurities, purifying, concentrating and performing chromatographic separation to obtain the high-purity xylose liquid and arabinose liquid; concentrating the xylose liquid, crystallizing, separating and drying to obtain crystallized xylose; and concentrating arabinose liquid, crystallizing, separating and drying to obtain crystallized arabinose. The invention also provides a bio-preparation method for arabinose and xylose.

The invention belongs to the bioengineering field, and discloses digest prepared from corn skin and its production method and application. The digest is prepared by treating the corn skin with physical method, and then treating the crushed corn skin with chemical and/or biological method to obtain the digest containing glucose, xylose, arabinose, galactose and mannose and the total amount of the monosaccharide occupies 54-71.9% wt. of the dry corn skin. The digest can be used for the preparation of medium. The digest of the invention can be used as sugar source for fermentation instead of glucose, lowers the fermentation cost, increases economic returns, makes full use of renewable resources, promotes the integrated usage of corn skin, reduces environmental pollution, improves ecological environment, promotes the sustainable development of national economy, and has wide social effects.