Thermally Induced Conformation Transition of Triple-Helical Lentinan in NaCl Aqueous Solution

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Abstract

Lentinan, a beta-(1-->3)-D-glucan, was isolated from Lentinus edodes by using an improved extraction and purification method to show good water solubility and high yield. The results from 13C NMR, size-exclusion chromatography combined with multiangle laser light scattering (SEC-MALLS), dynamic light scattering (DLS), and optical rotation revealed that lentinan existed in a triple-helical conformation in the aqueous solution at 25 degrees C, whereas the thermally induced conformation transition from triple helix to single flexible chains occurred at elevated temperatures. The dependences of the weight-average molecular weight (Mw), radius of gyration (z1/2), hydrodynamic radius (Rh), intrinsic viscosity ([eta]), and specific optical rotation of lentinan on temperature in 0.9% NaCl aqueous solution showed an abrupt drop at 130-145 degrees C. It was confirmed that the conformation transitions from triple strand to single chain and from extended chains to winding chains for lentinan were completed rapidly at 130-145 degrees C, as a result of the simultaneous destruction of the intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds in lentinan. The thermally induced conformational transition was irreversible. The results from atomic force microscopy (AFM) and DLS demonstrated the existence of intrachain entanglement for the triple-helical chains, leading to the wormlike linear, circular, and crossover species for lentinan having high Mw (1.71x10(6)) in aqueous solution at 25 degrees C.

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