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Furthermore, analytes involved in food immunoassays are of extremely different chemical nature, and are present in a very broad range of concentrations. Whereas macromolecules (such as protein, enzymes, polysaccharides, and microbial cell-wall components) are generally present in the mg per kg range, environmental contaminants, residues from farming practices, antibiotics, toxins, and pathogens are often present at much lower concentration, as low as 0.1 pg per kg. Food analytes for which immunoassays have been developed and are commercially available are listed in Table 1. 

Proteins, enzymes, polysaccharides, and nucleic acids are natural biologically active polymers, but no attempt will be made to review these diverse systems here several recent books and review articles are available.20-22,58-60 synthetic analogs have been prepared of essentially every type of natural macromolecule and many of these have exhibited biological activity. These analogs will be considered briefly in the next several sections. 

Bioactive polymeric materials have existed from the creation of life itself. Many firmly believe that life could not even exist unless polymeric materials are used to form the basic building blocks. Although this assumption can not be rigorously proven, it is a fact that most, if not all, of the major biochemical pathways involve polymeric species, such as the proteins (including enzymes), polysaccharides and nucleic acids. Among the many reasons for this fact, must be the observation that the natural polymeric materials can be made into an enormous variety of different, but inter-related, species. It is now well established that a DNA chain, which only contains four different primary repeating units, can encode an enormous wealth of data permitting not only the replication processes, but protein synthesis and the entire life scheme as well. 

Metabolic Functions. Manganese is essential for normal body stmcture, reproduction, normal functioning of the central nervous system, and activation of numerous enzymes (126). Synthesis of the mucopolysaccharide chondroitin sulfate involves a series of reactions where manganese is required in at least five steps (127). These reactions are responsible for formation of polysaccharides and linkage between the polysaccharide and proteins that form... 

Enzyme Formation and Polysaccharide Synthesis by Bacteria. III. Polysaccharides Produced by Nitrogen-fixing Organisms, W. A. Cooper, W. D. Daker, and M. Stacey, Biochem. J., 32 (1938) 1752-1758. 

Many years ago chitin was seen as a scarcely appeahng natural polymer due to the variety of origins, isolation treatments and impurities, but the works of several analytical chemists and the endeavor of an increasing number of companies have qualified chitins and chitosans for sophisticated applications in the biosciences. Chemistry today offers a range of finely characterized modified chitosans for use in the biomedical sciences. Moreover, surprising roles of these polysaccharides and related enzymes are being unexpectedly discovered [351]. 

LONGSTAFF M, MCNAB J M (1991) The inhibitory effects of hull polysaccharides and tannins of field beans (Vida faba L.) on the digestion of amino acids, starch and hpid and on digestive enzyme activities in young chicks. Br. TNutr. 65 199-216. 

The plant cell wall contains different types of polysaccharides, proteins (structural glycoproteins and enzymes), lignin and water, as well as some inorganic components (1, 14-16). The plant cell suspensions, however, grow as a population of cells with a primary cell wall(17). The main components of these walls are cellulose-free polysaccharides and pectic polysaccharides in particular, which constitute 1/3 of their dry weight. (18). Some fragments, e g. methanol, acetic, ferulic and p-cumaric acids, are connected with the pectic polysaccharides by ester bonds with the carboxylic and hydroxylic groups. 

A breaker an enzyme (at T<140°F), strong oxidizing agent, or an acid, is used to depolymerize polysaccharides and break crosslinks such that viscosity declines at a controlled rate so that the proppant may be deposited in the fracture. Too rapid proppant dropout would cause a premature "sand-out" which prevents future extension of the fracture. Peroxydisulfates are the most frequently used breakers. Less reactive organic peroxides may be preferred for high temperature formations (85). 

Applications of sol-gel-processed interphase catalysts. Chemical Reviews, 102, 3543-3578. Pierre, A.C. (2004) The sol-gel encapsulation of enzymes. Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, 22, 145-170. Shchipunov, Yu.A. (2003) Sol-gel derived biomaterials of silica and carrageenans. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 268, 68-76. Shchipunov Yu.A. and Karpenko T.Yu. (2004) Hybrid polysaccharide-silica nanocomposites prepared by the sol-gel technique. Langmuir, 20, 3882-3887. 

Abiontic, involving free extracellular enzymes or solubilizing agents, enzymes bound to soil surfaces, enzymes within dead or non-proliferating cells, or enzymes associated with dead cell fragments. Extracellular enzymes are important in the initial stages of organic matter oxidation, in which polysaccharides and proteins are hydrolysed to soluble compounds that can be absorbed by microbial cells and further oxidized in biotic processes. 

Liquid-chromatographic techniques have been useful for studying the mode of action of various polysaccharide-degrading enzymes. Rapid and quantitative, l.c. end-product analysis has been used to study the action... 

Dietary fibre was defined by Hugh TroweU as the plant polysaccharides and lignin which are resistant to hydrolysis by the digestive enzymes of humans . This definition lacks chemical precision, because non-flbrous pectins and gums are also present. The term nonstarch polysaccharide (NSP) is often preferred, although the term dietary fibre still persists. Unfortunately, NSP is also not satisfactory since some starch, known as resistant or par-... 

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