A novel cell-wall polysaccharide derived from the stipe of Agaricus bisporus inhibits mouse melanoma proliferation and metastasis.

Malignant melanoma is an invasive and highly aggressive skin cancer that-if diagnosed-poses a serious threat to the patient's health and life. In this work, a novel purified cell-wall polysaccharide (termed Abwp) was obtained from the discarded stipe of Agaricus bisporus (A. bisporus) and characterized to be a novel homogeneous polysaccharide consisted of a β-(1 → 4)- glucosyl backbone with β-(1 → 2) and (1 → 6)-d-glucosyl side-chains.

A mixed-mode resin with tryptamine ligand for human serum albumin separation.

Mixed-mode chromatography (MMC) is a new technology that uses specially-designed ligands to improve the adsorption selectivity with multimodal protein-ligand interactions for protein separation. A new MMC resin TA-B-6FF with tryptamine as the functional ligand was prepared and used for human serum albumin (HSA) separation. Adsorption equilibria of plasma-derived HSA (pHSA) were investigated and compared with a commercial tryptophan-based resin (MX-Trp-650m), and the influence of pH and salt addition was studied.