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A glucan molecule is a polysaccharide of D-glucose monomers,^[1] linked by glycosidic bonds.

Many beta-glucans are medically important. They represent a drug target for antifungal medications of the echinocandin class.

Types

The following are glucans: (The α- and β- and numbers clarify the type of O-glycosidic bond.)

Alpha

dextran, α-1,6-glucan with α-1,3-branches
floridean starch, α-1,4- and α-1,6-glucan
glycogen, α-1,4- and α-1,6-glucan
pullulan, α-1,4- and α-1,6-glucan
starch, a mixture of amylose and amylopectin, both α-1,4- and α-1,6-glucans

Beta

cellulose, β-1,4-glucan
chrysolaminarin, β-1,3-glucan
curdlan, β-1,3-glucan
laminarin, β-1,3- and β-1,6-glucan
lentinan, a strictly purified β-1,6:β-1,3-glucan from Lentinus edodes
lichenin, β-1,3- and β-1,4-glucan
oat beta-glucan, β-1,3- and β-1,4-glucan
pleuran, β-1,3- and β-1,6-glucan isolated from Pleurotus ostreatus
zymosan, β-1,3-glucan

Properties

Properties of Glucans include resistance to oral acids/enzyme and water insolubility.Glucans extracted from grains tend to be both soluble and insoluble.

Chemistry of Glucans

Glucans are polysaccharides of glucose monomers linked by glycosidic bonds. Accordingly, polymers built up of carbohydrate units bound by bonds other than glycosodic bonds are not considered polysaccharides. Only four different types glucose-based polysaccharides are possible to be built: 1,6- (starch), 1,4- (cellulose), 1,3- (laminarin) and 1,2-bonded glucans.

Levoglucosan is 1,6-anhydro derivative of glucose. It is one of the key products in thermal conversion of polysaccharides. Polysaccharides are not volatile at combustion temperatures; propagation of fire takes place due to combustion of volatile products of degradation of polysaccharides, mainly levoglucosan.

The first representatives of main chain unhydrolysable linear polymers made up of levoglucosan units were synthesized in 1985 by anionic polymerization of 2,3-epoxy derivatives of levoglucosan (1,6;2,3-dianhydro-4-O-alkyl-β-D-mannopyranoses).^[2]

2,3-Polymer

A wide range of unique monomers with different radical R can be synthesized.^[3] There were synthesized polymers with R= -CH₃,^[2] -CH₂CHCH₂,^[4] and -CH₂C₆H₅.^[5] Investigation of the polymerization kinetics of those derivatives, molecular weight and molecular-weight distribution showed that the polymerization has the features of a living polymerization system. The process takes place without termination and transfer of the polymer chain with a degree of polymerization equal to the mole ratio of the monomer to the initiator.^[6]^[7] Accordingly, the upper value molecular weight polymer determines only degree of purification system what determine the presence in the system uncontrollable amount of terminators of polymer chains.

Poly(2-3)-D-glucose was synthesized proceeds by transformation of benzyl (R= -CH₂C₆H₅) functionalized polymer.^[5]

Polyglucose

Polymerization of 3,4-epoxy levoglucosan (1,6;3,4-dianhydro-2-O-alkyl-β-D-galactopyranose) ^[8] results in formation 3,4-bounded levoglucosan polymer.

3,4-Polymer

The presence of 1,6-anhydro structure in every unit of polymer chains allows to apply all spectra of well developed methods of carbohydrate chemistry with formation of highly intriguing biological application polymers. The polymers are the only known regular polyethers built up of carbohydrate units in main polymer chain.^[9]^[10]

References

^ Glucans at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
^ ^a ^b Berman, E.L., Gorkovenko A.A., Zubov, V.P., and Ponomarenko, V.A.,"Regio and Stereospecific Synthesis of Polyglucose with Novel Type BondSoviet J.Bioorg. Chem. 11 (1985), 1125-1129
^ Carlson, LJ (November 1965). "Preparation of 2- and 4-Substituted D-Glucose Derivatives from 1,6-Anhydro-β-D- glucopyranose". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 30 (11): 3953–3955. doi:10.1021/jo01022a517.
^ Gorkovenko, A.A., Berman, E.L., and Ponomarenko, V.A. Polymerization of 1, 6;2,3 dianhydro 4 O allyl β D manno¬pyranose" Vysocomol. Soed., Ser. B, 1987, 29, 134 137
^ ^a ^b Gorkovenko, A.A., Berman, E.L., and Ponomarenko, V.A. "A New Polymer of Glucose. Poly(2 3) D glucose" Soviet J. Bioorg. Chem., 1987, 13, 218 222
^ Berman, E.L., Gorkovenko, A.A., Rogozhkina, E.D., Izumnikov, A.A., and Ponomarenko, V.A. “Kinetics and Mechanism of Epoxy Ring-Opening Polymerization of 1,6;2,3-Dianhydro-4-O-alkyl-b-D-mannopyranoses” Polymer Sci. USSR, 1988, 413-418
^ Berman E.L. Gorkovenko, A.A., Rogozhkina, E.D., Izyumnikov, A.L., and Ponomarenko, V.A. "Synthesis of Chiral Derivatives of Poly(Ethylene Oxide)" Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Div. Chem. Sci., 1988, 705 707
^ Gorkovenko A. A., Berman, E.L., and Ponomarenko, V.A., Poly(3 4) 2 O methyl 1,6 anhydro b D glucopyranose. The First Example of (3 4) linked Polymer Carbohydrates" Soviet J. Bioorg. Chem. 12 (1986), 514-520
^ Berman E.L., Gorkovenko, A.A., and Ponomarenko, V.A. "Structure and Polymerizability of 1,6;2,3 and 1,6;3,4¬ Dianhydrohexapyranoses" Polymer Sci. USSR, 1988, 30, 497¬-502
^ Berman, E.L., “New Glucose Polymers” in “Levoglucosenone and Levoglucosanes: Symposium: 204th National meeting”, Zbigniew J. Witczak (editor), American Chemical Society. Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry, 189-214. Publisher: A T L Press, Scientific Publishers ISBN 978-1-882360-13-0 ISBN 1882360133

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関: グリコーゲン脱分枝酵素

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The terminal glucosyl residues from the outermost chains of the glycogen molecule are removed sequentially until approximately four glucose residues remain on either side of a 1→6 branch.