Hyaluronate I Potassium

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  Hyaluronate I Potassium

Linkage : beta 1-3      beta 1-4

Space Group : orthorhombic P212121

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) = 11.73 - b (Å) = 9.25 - c (Å) = 35.42

Helix Type : two antiparallel polysaccharide chains that are disturbed 43 helices

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

Link to the Abstract : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6631954

Reference :

Hyaluronic acid: molecular conformations and interactions in the orthorhombic and tetragonal forms containing sinuous chains
A. K. Mitra, S. Raghunathan, J. K. Sheehan and Struther Arnott, J. Mol. Biol. 1983, 169, 829-859

 

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