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Table 3 Saccharide composition of onion epidermal wall pre-digested with Driselase enzyme followed by met/TFA/Saeman’s hydrolysis

From: Saccharide analysis of onion outer epidermal walls

 

µg/mg dry weight

%

Trial 1

Trial 2

Trial 3

Mean

Total

Dri + mTFA

Sae

Dri + mTFA

Sae

Dri + mTFA

Sae

Dri + mTFA

Sae

Glc

42.1

41.2

45.51

47.03

42.1

62.2

43.2 (1.0)

50.1 (5.1)

93.3

16.3

GalA

395.8

0.0

320.19

0.00

308.7

6.8

341.6 (22.3)

2.3 (1.9)

343.8

59.9

Gal

110.0

3.2

40.69

3.27

66.3

4.3

72.3 (16.5)

3.6 (0.3)

75.9

13.2

Xyl/Man*

20.9

4.4

18.57

3.63

19.8

13.1

19.8 (0.5)

7.1 (2.5)

26.8

4.7

Rha

21.7

0.4

9.67

0.43

11.3

0.8

14.2 (3.1)

0.6 (0.1)

14.8

2.6

Ara

21.9

0.6

6.79

0.71

9.5

1.6

12.7 (3.8)

1.0 (0.3)

13.7

2.4

Fuc

2.1

0.5

4.2

0.41

2.0

2.4

2.8 (0.6)

1.1 (0.5)

3.9

0.7

GlcA

3.6

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.6

0.0

1.7 (0.8)

0.0 (0.0)

1.7

0.3

Total

618.1

50.2

445.6

55.5

461.3

91.3

508.3

65.7

574.0

100

  1. Dri + mTFA, peel Driselase digested and the soluble sugars hydrolyzed by methanolysis with TFA; Sae, 2-step sulfuric acid (Saeman's hydrolysis) on Driselase digested residue; Xyl/Man*, HPAEC-PAD parameters did not separate xylose and mannose peaks. µg/mg values were adjusted using correction factors listed in “Materialsandmethods”. (SEM), standard error of mean of 3 biological replicates