Publications by authors named "Sunil Kumar Bhanja"
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- - A water-soluble xylan (PS-I) was extracted from fresh Piper betle leaves, with a molecular weight of around 1.1 x 10^4 Da, and composed mainly of xylose, galactose, and methyl galacturonate in a 3:1:1 ratio.
- - Its structure features a backbone of three (1 → 4)-α-D-xylopyranosyl residues, one of which branches out with a side chain of (1 → 4)-α-D-galacturonic acid methyl ester and terminal β-D-galactose.
- - The xylan showed significant immunostimulatory effects on immune cells and demonstrated strong antioxidant properties, suggesting potential uses
The emergence of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has pushed forward the world to experience the first pandemic of this century. Any specific drug against this RNA virus is yet to be discovered and presently, the COVID-19 infected patients are being treated symptomatically. During the last few decades, a number of polysaccharides with potential biological activities have been invented from Indian medicinal plants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA water soluble polysaccharide (PGPS) with molecular weight ~ 1.4 × 10 Da was isolated by alkali treatment from an edible mushroom Polyporus grammocephalus and purified by gel chromatography using sepharose-6B column. Monosaccharide analysis revealed that PGPS was made up of glucose only.
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