Monosaccharide composition and in vivo immuno-stimulatory potential of soluble yam (Dioscorea opposita Thunb.) polysaccharides in response to a covalent Se incorporation
2022
Guan, Qing-Yun | Zhao, Xin-Huai
The present study aimed to investigate whether selenylation modification could affect compositional features and in vivo immuno-stimulatory potential of yam polysaccharides. In this study, the soluble yam mucilage polysaccharides (YPS) were prepared and selenylated in the HNO₃-Na₂SeO₃ system, and two selenylated polysaccharide products, namely SeYPS-1 and SeYPS-2 with respective Se contents of 719 and 1585 mg/kg, were thus obtained. GC–MS analysis demonstrated that the compositional features of SeYPS-1 and SeYPS-2 were similar to those of YPS. Meanwhile, the immuno-stimulatory potential of the selenylated products, especially SeYPS-2, in the BALB/c mice model was higher than that of YPS, reflected by the elevated contents of serum immunoglobins and increased percentage of CD4⁺ splenic lymphocytes. It was thus confirmed that the selenylation did not change the composition of monosaccharides but endowed YPS with greater immuno-stimulation in the mice, while the higher extent of selenylation also caused a much enhanced immuno-stimulatory potential of SeYPS-2.
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