Chemical composition and molecular structure of polysaccharide-protein biopolymer from Durio zibethinusseed: extraction and purification process

Table 1 Comparison between sugar composition of durian seed gum and other plant based gums

Plant gum	Monosaccharide composition
	Rham	Xyl	Arab	Glu	Gal	Man
Durian seed gum ^a	trace	0.4 ± 0.1	0.6 ± 0.0	40.8 ± 3.9	58.2 ± 3.2	-
Durian seed gum ^b	trace	0.3 ± 0.0	0.8 ± 0.1	44.6 ± 2.8	54.4 ± 3.5	-
Durian seed gum ^c	21	-	-	70	8	-
Yanang gum ^d	0.5	72.9	7.7	11.0	8.4	-
Locust bean gum ^e	0.2 ± 0.1	0.6 ± 0.1	1.9 ± 0.1	4.1 ± 0.1	14.6 ± 0.2	51.9 ± 0.5
Malva nut gum ^f	29.4 ± 0.1	2.1 ± 0.1	31.9 ± 0.2	2.7 ± 0.2	29.2 ± 0.2	4.8 ± 0.3
Prosopis seed gum ^g	-	-	2.5 ± 0.2	13.9 ± 1.2	27.3 ± 0.8	56.3 ± 0.8

Data presented are the mean value ± standard deviation, Rham Rhamnose, Xyl Xylose, Arab Arabinose, Glu Glucose, Gal Galactose, Man Mannose, ^a Crude aqueous durian seed gum (current study), ^b Crude chemically-extracted durian seed gum (current study), ^c Amin et al. [6], ^d Singthong et al. [9], ^e Dakia et al. [10], ^f Somboonpanyakul et al. [11], ^g Ibaňez and Ferrero [12].

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