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Title: Arabinose Conjugates Diagnostic of Ferulate-Ferulate and Ferulate-Monolignol Cross-Coupling Are Released by Mild Acidolysis of Grass Cell Walls

Abstract

Ferulate (FA) units esterified to grass arabinoxylans are involved in cross-linking cell wall polymers. Here, this contention is strengthened by the identification of FA homo- and heterodimers esterified to methyl arabinofuranoside (MeAra) units after their release from the xylan by mild acidolysis in dioxane/methanol/HCl. Acidolysis of poorly lignified maize bran cell walls provided diferulate (DFA) isomers, including those from 8–5, 8–O–4, and 5–5 interunit bonding, esterified to one or two MeAra units. Acidolysis of lignified grass samples released crossed dimers esterified to one MeAra unit and derived from the β–O–4 coupling of coniferyl alcohol to FA esters. The evaluation of these heterodimeric esters by LC-UV of their aglycones revealed that the parent structures occur in significant amounts in lignified cell walls (0.5–1 mg/g expressed as FA equivalents). The current results position mild acidolysis as an efficient strategy to obtain improved details regarding the FA-mediated cross-linking of grass cell walls.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. Univ. Paris-Saclay, Versailles (France)
  2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1600973
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0018409
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 67; Journal Issue: 46; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-8561
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Radical coupling; dehydrodimer; lignification; cell wall cross-link; diferulate; monocot

Citation Formats

Lapierre, Catherine, Voxeur, Aline, Boutet, Stéphanie, and Ralph, John. Arabinose Conjugates Diagnostic of Ferulate-Ferulate and Ferulate-Monolignol Cross-Coupling Are Released by Mild Acidolysis of Grass Cell Walls. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.9b05840.
Lapierre, Catherine, Voxeur, Aline, Boutet, Stéphanie, & Ralph, John. Arabinose Conjugates Diagnostic of Ferulate-Ferulate and Ferulate-Monolignol Cross-Coupling Are Released by Mild Acidolysis of Grass Cell Walls. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b05840
Lapierre, Catherine, Voxeur, Aline, Boutet, Stéphanie, and Ralph, John. Wed . "Arabinose Conjugates Diagnostic of Ferulate-Ferulate and Ferulate-Monolignol Cross-Coupling Are Released by Mild Acidolysis of Grass Cell Walls". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b05840. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1600973.
@article{osti_1600973,
title = {Arabinose Conjugates Diagnostic of Ferulate-Ferulate and Ferulate-Monolignol Cross-Coupling Are Released by Mild Acidolysis of Grass Cell Walls},
author = {Lapierre, Catherine and Voxeur, Aline and Boutet, Stéphanie and Ralph, John},
abstractNote = {Ferulate (FA) units esterified to grass arabinoxylans are involved in cross-linking cell wall polymers. Here, this contention is strengthened by the identification of FA homo- and heterodimers esterified to methyl arabinofuranoside (MeAra) units after their release from the xylan by mild acidolysis in dioxane/methanol/HCl. Acidolysis of poorly lignified maize bran cell walls provided diferulate (DFA) isomers, including those from 8–5, 8–O–4, and 5–5 interunit bonding, esterified to one or two MeAra units. Acidolysis of lignified grass samples released crossed dimers esterified to one MeAra unit and derived from the β–O–4 coupling of coniferyl alcohol to FA esters. The evaluation of these heterodimeric esters by LC-UV of their aglycones revealed that the parent structures occur in significant amounts in lignified cell walls (0.5–1 mg/g expressed as FA equivalents). The current results position mild acidolysis as an efficient strategy to obtain improved details regarding the FA-mediated cross-linking of grass cell walls.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jafc.9b05840},
journal = {Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry},
number = 46,
volume = 67,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {10}
}

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Table 1 Table 1: GC-MS analysis (electron-impact 70 eV) of the TMS phenolic dimers (analyzed as their TMS derivatives) recovered after alkaline hydrolysis of acidolysis samples. Peak numbers refer to peak notations in Figure 3.

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