Hot-water extracts from the inner bark of Norway spruce with immunomodulating activities

  • Myriam Le Normand
  • , Hugo Mélida
  • , Bjarne Holmbom
  • , Terje E. Michaelsen
  • , Marit Inngjerdingen
  • , Vincent Bulone
  • , Berit Smestad Paulsen
  • , Ek Monica

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    Abstract

    The inner bark of Norway spruce (Picea abies) was sequentially extracted with hot water at 100 °C, 140 °C, and 160 °C. The hot-water extracts (IB 100 °C, IB 140°C and IB 160 °C) contained pectic polysaccharides and showed immunostimulating activities. Structural analyses of their carbohydrate content, including glycosidic linkage analyses, revealed the presence of pectins with large rhamnogalacturonen RG-1 domain ramified with highly-branched arabinans. IB 100 °C also contained a large amount of terminal glycosyl residues, indicating the presence of highly substituted polymers. IB 160 °C was mainly composed of starch. The hot-water extracts were tested for two biological activities, namely complement fixation and macrophage stimulation. IB 100 °C exhibited the highest compliment fixation activity, with a 1.7-times higher ICH 50 than the control pectin, while IB 140 °C and IB 160 °C gave similar ICH 50 values as the control. Macrophages were stimulated by IB 100 °C and IB 140 °C in a dose-dependent manner, but not by IB 160 °C. IB 100 °C presented the highest activity towards macrophages, comparable to the control pectin.
    Original languageUndefined/Unknown
    Pages (from-to)699–704
    JournalCarbohydrate Polymers
    Volume101
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • Bark
    • Biorefinery
    • Immunomodulating activities
    • Compositional analysis
    • Pectins

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