Hyaluronate I Sodium

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  Hyaluronate I Sodium

Linkage : beta 1-3      beta 1-4

Space Group : tetragonal P43212

Unit Cell Dimensions (a, b, c in Å and α, β, γ in °)

(No values are displayed if no information is available or the value is zero)

a (Å) = 9.89 - b (Å) = 9.89 - c (Å) = 33.94

Helix Type : anti-parallel, left-handed, 4-fold helix of disaccharide units

Method(s) Used For Structure Determination : X-ray diffraction and molecular modelling

Link to the Abstract : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1152059

Reference :

Hyaluronic acid: molecular conformations and interactions in two sodium salts
Guss, J.M., Hukins, D.W.L., Smith, P.J.C., Winter, W.T., Arnott, S. Moorhouse, R. and Rees, D.A., J. Mol. Biol. 1975, 95, 359-384

 

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Unit          Hyaluronate-I-Na_chain