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Rapid Separation of Cellular Cyclosophoraoses Produced by Rhizobium Species

  • Seo, Dong-Hyuk;Lee, Sang-Hoo;Park, Hey-Lin;Kwon, Tae-Jong;Jung, Seun-Ho
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.522-525
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    • 2002
  • A very rapid and efficient separation technique for cellular rhizobial cyclosophoraoses was developed based on fractional precipitation and partition chromatography. Cyclosophoraoses are known to function in the osmotic regulation and root nodule formation of legumes during the nitrogen fixation process. Cyclosophoraoses are produced as unbranched cyclic (1longrightarrow12)-${\beta}$-D-glucans in Agrobacterium or Rhizobium species. Recent research has shown that cyclosophoraoses can form inclusion complexation with various unstable or insoluble guest chemicals, thereby implying great potential for industrial application. Typical separation of pure cellular cyclosophoraoses has been so far carried out by several time-consuming steps, including size exclusion, anion exchange, and desalting liquid chromatographies, with a relatively poor recovery. However, the proposed method demonstrated that the successive application of fractional ethanol precipitation and one step of silica gel-based flash column chromatography was enough to simultaneously purify neutral or anionic forms of cyclosophoraoses. This novel technique is very rapid and provides a high recovery.

Inclusion Complexation of a Family of Cyclsohoraoses with Indomethacin

  • Lee, Sang-Hoo;Kwon, Chan-Ho;Choi, Young-Jin;Seo, Dong-Hyuk;Kim, Hyun-Won;Jung, Seun-Ho
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.463-468
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    • 2001
  • Cyclosophoraoses are a class of unbranced cyclic-(1longrightarrow2)-${\beta}$-D-glucans found in the Rhizobium species. Their unique cyclic structures and high solubility make them potent for inclusion complexation as a host for an insoluble guest molecule. A family of neutral cyclosophoraoses (DP 17-27) isolated from Rhizobium meliloti 2011 was used as a host for inclusion complexation with an insoluble guest drug, indomethacin. A high performance liquid chromatographic analysis indicated that the inclusion complexation of cyclosophoraoses greatly ehanced the solubility of indomethacin compared with ${\beta}$-cyclodextrin. The estimated value of the association constant of the complex in water for $\beta$-cyclodextrin and cyclosophoraoses was $523M^{-1} and 17,570M^{-1}$, respectively. NMR spectroscopy showed that the inclusion complex was characterized by the interaction of the indole ring moiety of indomethacin with the cavity of cyclosophoraoses.

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Cyclosophoraose as a Novel Chiral Stationary Phase for Enantioseparation

  • JUNG, YUN-JUNG;LEE, SANG-HOO;PAIK, SEUNG-R.;JUNG, SEUN-HO
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1338-1342
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    • 2004
  • Cyclosophoraoses (Cys), cyclic ${\beta}-(1{\rightarrow}2)-D-glucans$ produced by Rhizobium meliloti 2011, were used as a novel chiral stationary phase for the enantiomeric separation. A novel Cys stationary phase, chemically immobilized onto porous silica via aminopropyltrimethoxysilane as a molecular linker, showed good separation for each racemate of bupivacain (separation factor, $\alpha$=1.3), propranolol ($\alpha$=1.3), and fenoprofen ($\alpha$=2.9), respectively, under the mobile phase of water: methanol (80:20, v/v) at a constant flow rate of 0.9 ml/min at pH7.