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International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

Institutional price:	$538.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2003, Volume5

112 pages

DOI: 10.1615/InterJMedicMush.v5.i3

Issue price - $128.00

Structure and Antitumor Activity of 1,3-b-Glucan from Cultivated Fruit Bodies of Culinary–Medicinal Mushroom Hypsizygus marmoreus (Peck) Bigel. (Agaricomycetideae)

Masuro Motoi
Toei Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 2-5-3 Iguchi, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0011, Japan

Shigeyuki Goto
Gotogumi Co. Ltd., Yonezawa, Yamagata Japan

Naohito Ohno
Tokyo University Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Laboratory Immunopharmacological Microbiological Production, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0392, Japan

ABSTRACT

Hypsizygus marmoreus is an edible mushroom widely cultured in Japan. Polysaccharide fractions were prepared from the cultured H. marmoreus by repeated extraction with hot water (HmHWE), cold NaOH, and then hot NaOH. The residue was further treated with NaClO and prepared extract (HmCHAE) and residue (HmCHAR). The cold NaOH extract was further separated into water-soluble (HmCAEE) and -insoluble (HmCAER) fractions. The hot NaOH extract was also separated into water-soluble (HmHAEE) and -insoluble (HmHAER) fractions. Cold and hot NaOH extracts showed antitumor activity to the solid form of Sarcoma 180 in ICR mice. By chemical, enzymic, and NMR analyses, HmCAEE and HmHAEE contained significant amounts of 6-branched 1,3-b-glucan. In addition to 6-branched 1,3-b-glucan, NaOH extracted, water-insoluble fraction contained 1,3-a-glucan. Purified 1,3-a-glucan did not show antitumor activity. These facts strongly suggested that b-glucans but not a-glucans show antitumor activity in H. marmoreus.