Characterization of metal binding properties of rhamnogalacturonan II from plant cell walls by size-exclusion HPLC/ICP-MS.

The binding properties of metal ions to a pectic polysaccharide, rhamnogalacturonan II (RG-II), from plant cell walls were analyzed by size-exclusion HPLC/ICP-MS. The dimeric RG-II borate complex (dRG-II-B) from sugar beet and red wine contained 0.8 - 1.1 mol/mol of B, 0.8 - 1.1 mol/mol of Ca, 0.1 - 0.3 mol/mol of Sr, and 0.03 - 0.07 mol/mol of Ba. The treatment of dRG-II-B with Sr2+, Ba2+, Pb2+ or La3+ exchanged the originally present Ca, Sr and Ba. In contrast, monomeric RG-II (mRG-II), which contained approximately 0.1 mol/mol of Ca, formed complexes with La3+, Eu3+, and Lu3+ added to the solution, but did not do so with Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+ and Pb2+. The HPLC/ICP-MS and HPLC/RI (refractive index detector) analysis of the partially hydrolyzed mRG-II that was treated with La3+ indicated that the side chains and backbone of mRG-II together form a lanthanoid binding site.     

生漆多糖的分离与结构研究

生漆用丙酮提取不溶解物，除去其水不溶部分、依次进行７３２阳离子交换树脂和ＳｅｐｈａｄｅｘＧ－１００柱层析、得到白色粉末漆多糖．分子量１２．５×１０￣４．其组成为Ｄ－半乳糖、Ｄ－葡萄糖醛酸、Ｌ－阿拉伯糖和Ｌ－鼠李糖．摩尔比为７．７：１．８：０．４：０．１．经羧基还原、甲基化反应、高碘酸盐氧化、Ｓｍｉｔｈ降解和ＧＣ－ＭＳ、ＩＲ、￣１Ｈ－ＮＭＲ、￣１３Ｃ－ＮＭＲ分析、结果表明，漆多糖为多分支结构、分子主链由β（１→３）Ｄ－半乳糖基构成．部分半乳糖基Ｃ＿６位有支链，另有部分半乳糖基以（１→６）键连接，其中β（１→３）与β（１→６）甙键糖基组成比为１．８３：１．分子的支链由葡萄糖醛酸基、阿拉伯糖基、鼠李糖基组成，并且葡萄糖醛酸基构成分子的末端基．     

Solubilization of oligosaccharides into chloroform by their incorporation into polystyrene as pendant groups

Solubilization of hydrophilic saccharide chains into organic solvents has been attempted by incorporating saccharide-substituted styrene unit into polystyrene main chain. Lactose-, maltopentaose, and amylose-substituted styrene monomers were copolymerized with styrene. Resulting chloroform-soluble copolymers were characterized, and structural formation was investigated. Copolymers of lactose-substituted styrene and maltopentaose-substituted styrene with styrene were dissolved into chloroform. The chloroform-soluble polymers contained about 12 disaccharide lactose chains or 1.7 maltopentaose chains as the pendant groups in one polystyrene molecule. Chloroform-insoluble methyl orange was dissolved into chloroform with the help of chloroform-soluble polystyrene having some saccharide chains. On the other hand, when an amylose-substituted styrene unit was inserted in a polystyrene chain, the resulting polymer became insoluble into chloroform. Amylose polysaccharide of DP_n = ∼24 was not dissolved into chloroform by this method.     

Biodegradable compositions by reactive processing of aliphatic polyester/polysaccharide blends

Commercially available biodegradable aliphatic polyesters, i.e., high molecular weight poly(ϵ-caprolactone) (PCL) and polylactide (PLA), were melt blended with a well-known natural and biodegradable polysaccharide: starch either as corn starch granules or as thermoplastic corn starch after plasticization with glycerol. Conventional melt blending yielded compositions with poor mechanical performances as a result of lack of interfacial adhesion between the rather hydrophobic polyester matrix and the highly hydrophilic and moisture sensitive starch phase. Interface compatibilization was achieved via two different strategies depending on the nature of the polyester chains. In case of PLA/starch compositions, PLA chains were grafted with maleic anhydride through a free radical reaction conducted by reactive extrusion. The maleic anhydride-grafted PLA chains (MAG-PLA) allowed for reinforcing the interfacial adhesion with granular starch as attested by TEM of cryofracture surface. As far as PCL/starch blends were concerned, the compatibilization was achieved via the interfacial localization of amphiphilic graft copolymers formed by grafting of PCL chains onto a polysaccharide backbone such as dextran. The PCL-grafted polysaccharide copolymers were synthesized by controlled ring-opening polymerization of ϵ-caprolactone proceeding via a coordination-insertion mechanism. These compatibilized PCL/starch compositions displayed much improved mechanical properties as determined by tensile testing as well as a much more rapid biodegradation as measured by composting testing.     

Structural Features of a Polysaccharide from Centella asiatica

Centella asiatica has been used as remedy for sodation, stabilization and against lepra, anabrosis1 in the oriental countries. The low-molecular-weight constituents in Centella asiatica have been investigated1. However, no polysaccharides have been reported. 1BI was the first polysaccharide isolated from C. asiatica, which had immunostimulating activity in vitro. In present study, we report the structural features of 1BI. Experimental Extraction, isolation and purification Dried C.…     

Organization and polysaccharides of sponge aggregation factor.

Aggregation factor, the macromolecular complex which mediates species-specific aggregation of dissociated sponge cells, was isolated from several species, partially characterized, and visualized by electron microscopy. All factors were large fibrous complexes with a backbone and side chains or arms. In some factors, the backbone is linear. In others it is circular and the complex appears as a sunburst with arms extending like rays from the circle. The size and location of the polysaccharide chains have been studied using purified preparations of Microciona prolifera. "Sunbursts" treated with ethylenediaminetraacetate (EDTA) for 4 weeks at 0 degrees C dissociate into 3 protein- and polysaccharide-containing components. Sodium dodecyl sulfate does not cause the sunburst to dissociate nor does it inhibit dissociation in the presence of EDTA suggesting that dissociation is not due to hydrolytic enzymes. The dissociation products were fractionated on a 977-A pore size micropore glass column. Fifteen percent of the material is excluded and appears in the electron microscope as the central circle of the sunburst. Digestion of the circles with 10(-3) M dithiothreitol (DTT) and 0.5 mg/ml proteinase K for 72 h at 37 degrees C produces 2 polysaccharide chains of 65,000 and 6,000 daltons as fractionated and sized on a 233-A pore size micropore glass column using Pharmacia dextrans as standards. The included fractions of the EDTA-treated material are subunits of the arms which contain 70% of the polysaccharide. A single polysaccharide of 6,000 daltons as measured on 233-A size glass beads and Sephadex G-75 is released from these subunits by proteinase digestion. Pharmacia dextrans are used as standard on both columns. We calculate that there would be four 65,000-dalton chains and one hundred 6,000-dalton chains per circle and fifty 6,000-dalton chains per arm. The third component of the EDTA-treated preparation is partially included on the column. It appears as linear fibrils in the electron microscope and contains polydisperse polysaccharides of several-hundred-thousand daltons. It may be an impurity since there is apparently less than 1 of the large polysaccharide chains per sunburst.     

Tryptophan side chain electrostatic interactions determine edge-to-face vs parallel-displaced tryptophan side chain geometries in the designed beta-hairpin "trpzip2"

The interaction geometries of the four tryptophan (Trp) side chains in the 12-residue designed beta-hairpin trpzip2 are investigated using all-atom explicit-solvent molecular dynamics simulations. The experimentally observed edge-to-face (EtF) pairwise interaction geometries are stable on a time scale of 10 ns. However, removing the electrostatic multipoles of the Trp side chains while retaining the dipoles of the side chains' NH moieties induces a conformational change to a geometry in which three of the four side chains interact in a parallel-displaced (PD) manner. Free energy simulations of the Etf to PD conformational change reveal that, with the side chain multipole moments intact (+MP), the EtF conformation is preferred by 5.79 kcal/mol. Conversely, with only the dipole moments of the side chain NH moieties intact (-MP), the PD conformation's free energy is more favorable by 1.71 kcal/mol. In contrast to energetic similarities for Trp side chain-water electrostatic and Trp side chain-Trp side chain and Trp side chain-water van der Waals, +MP Trp side chain-Trp side chain electrostatic interactions are more favorable by 4.21 kcal/mol in the EtF conformation, while in the -MP case the EtF and PD conformations' Trp side chain-Trp side chain electrostatic energies are nearly identical. The results highlight the importance of electrostatic multipole moments in determining aromatic-aromatic interaction geometries in aqueous biomolecular systems and argue for the inclusion of this physics in simplified models used for protein-ligand docking and protein structure prediction, possibly through a truncated Coulomb term between aromatic moieties.     

Neutron study of self-organization in solutions of ionomers based on sulfonated polystyrene

Processes of self-organization of ionomers based on sulfonated PS containing ionogenic groups in the salt form (SO₃Na) in chloroform have been studied by small-angle neutron scattering. At a small content of ionogenic groups SO₃Na (1.35 mol %), the conformation of PS chains changes from coil-like to globular due to electrostatic interactions between them. An increase in the share of ionogenic groups to 2.6 mol % brings about the assembly of ionomer chains into a hollow spherical structure with the solvent inside. In the shell of a micelle, polar groups are densely packed and shielded from the solvent by nonpolar fragments of adjoining chains. At a low content of ionogenic groups in ionomers, two-thirds of macromolecules in solution are not incorporated in any structures. With an increase in the content of polar groups to 2.6 mol %, almost all chains are organized to small clusters—the stable pairs of macromolecules.     

V-shaped crystalline structures of di-n-alkyl esters of phosphoric acid

We prepared crystals of di-n-alkyl esters of phosphoric acid with chain lengths of n = 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18. These were characterized by single-crystal X-ray analysis and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). It was found that the alkyl chains are in an extended all-trans conformation and aligned close to perpendicular, forming V-shaped molecules. This is in strong contrast to the typical arrangement of the alkyl chains of phospholipids where the two alkyl chains are arranged parallel in the same direction (e.g., tuning fork configuration in bilayers). Additionally, it was found that the arrangement of the V-shaped molecules of the di-n-alkyl esters in neighboring stacks of the lamellar crystals is antiparallel for short chain lengths (n = 10 and 12) and parallel for the longer (n = 14 and 16). DSC reveals that the melting of the crystals increases systematically with increasing chain lengths from 48 to 82 degrees C. The contribution of each methylene group to the melting enthalpy (70-133 kJ/mol) is independent of the chain length (3.9 kJ per mol CH2).     

当归多糖ASP3及其水解产物的NMR光谱分析

对当归多糖ASP3的糖链结构进行分析. 分别采用0.2 mol/L三氟乙酸(Trifluoroacetic acid, TFA)和内切-α-(1→4)-聚半乳糖醛酸酶(EndoPG)对ASP3进行部分酸水解和酶水解, 并对水解前后多糖组分的1D和2D NMR光谱特征进行分析. 实验结果表明, ASP3是一种果胶多糖. GalpA和Rhap位于多糖分子的主链, 由1→4-D-GalpA相连形成的“光滑区”(半乳糖醛酸聚糖)是其主要组成部分; 由α-(1→4)-GalpA通过O4位与α-(1→2)-和α-(1→2,4)-Rhap的O2位交替连接所形成的重复单元[→4)-α-GalpA-(1→2)-α-Rhap-(1→]构成具有较高分支的“毛发区”(富含中性糖侧链的鼠李半乳糖醛酸聚糖). Galp和Araf是中性糖侧链的主要组成, 通过Rhap残基的O4位与主链相连. 非还原性末端T-β-Galp, β-(1→3)-, β-(1→3,6)-, β-(1→4)-, β-(1→4,6)-Galp聚合形成以β-(1→3,6)-Galp为分支点的β-(1→6)-半乳聚糖和以β-(1→4,6)-Galp为分支点的β-(1→4)-半乳聚糖. T-α-Araf, α-(1→5)-Araf和α-(1→3,5)-Araf聚合形成以α-(1→3,5)-Araf为分支点的α-(1→5)-阿拉伯聚糖. 此外, 由α-(1→5)-阿拉伯聚糖通过α-(1→3)连接与β-(1→6)-半乳聚糖末端聚合形成阿拉伯半乳聚糖.     

Trivalent metal-mediated gelation of novel supergiant sulfated polysaccharides extracted from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Aphanothece stagnina</Emphasis>

Anionic polysaccharide (PS) was extracted from Aphanothece stagnina biomaterials where trivalent metal ions were remarkably condensed from environmental water. Structural analyses indicated that the PS was considered to be a kind of sulfated rhamnoglucan-containing uronic acid at a composition of 23 mol% and that the total composition of anionic groups such as sulfate and carboxylate was 31 mol% to the monosaccharide residues. Since the PS was found to be a huge macromolecule with an ultra-high molecular weight (3.14 × 10⁷ g/mol), the simple calculation indicated that about 9.5 × 10⁴ anions exist on one chain of the PS. The electric conductivity of the highly anionic PS solutions indicated that the metal ions such as Ga³⁺, La³⁺, and Ca²⁺ complexed ionically with PS chains. The PS formed the gels as a result of trivalent metal complexation, but the gelation behavior of the PS was different from that of the representative metal-complexable polysaccharide, alginate, in terms of the minimum gel formation concentration and the average molecular weight between cross-linking points.     

Polystyrene-b-poly(tert-butyl acrylate) and polystyrene-b-poly(acrylic acid) dendrimer-like copolymers: two-dimensional self-assembly at the air-water interface

The two-dimensional self-assembly at the air/water (A/W) interface of two dendrimer-like copolymers based on polystyrene and poly(tert-butyl acrylate) (PS-b-PtBA) or poly(acrylic acid) (PS-b-PAA) was investigated through surface pressure measurements (isotherms, isochores, and compression-expansion hysteresis experiments) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging. The two dendrimer-like block copolymers have an 8-arm PS core (Mn = 10 000 g/mol, approximately 12 styrene repeat units per arm) with a 16-arm PtBA (Mn = 230 000 g/mol, approximately 112 tert-butyl acrylate repeat units per arm) or PAA (Mn = 129 000 g/mol, approximately 112 acrylic acid repeat units per arm) corona. The PS-b-PtBA sample forms stable Langmuir monolayers and aggregates into circular surface micelles up to a plateau observed in the corresponding isotherm around 24 mN/m. Beyond this threshold, the monolayers collapse above the interface, resulting in the formation of large and irregular desorbed aggregates. The PS-b-PAA sample has ionizable carboxylic acid groups, and its A/W interfacial self-assembly was therefore investigated for various subphase pH values. Under basic conditions (pH = 11), the carboxylic acid groups are deprotonated, and the PS-b-PAA sample is therefore highly water-soluble and does not form stable monolayers, instead irreversibly dissolving in the aqueous subphase. Under acidic conditions (pH = 2.5), the PS-b-PAA sample is less water-soluble and becomes surface-active. The pseudoplateau observed in the isotherm around 5 mN/m corresponds to a pancake-to-brush transition with the PAA chains dissolving in the water subphase and stretching underneath the anchoring PS cores. AFM imaging revealed the presence of circular surface micelles for low surface pressures, whereas the biphasic nature of the pseudoplateau region was confirmed with the gradual aggregation of the micellar PS cores above the PAA chains. The aggregation numbers for both samples were estimated around 3-5 dendrimer-like copolymers per circular surface micelle. These rather low values confirmed the tremendous influence of molecular architecture on the two-dimensional self-assembly of block copolymers.     

Reentrant behavior of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes in water-methanol mixtures investigated with a quartz crystal microbalance

The solvent composition induced reentrant behavior of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) chains grafted on a SiO2 surface in water-methanol mixtures was investigated using a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) at 20 degrees C. The frequency and energy dissipation responses showed that the grafted PNIPAM chains sharply collapse when the methanol content (x(m)) reaches approximately 17 mol %. In the range 17-50 mol %, the grafted chains remain in a collapsed state. Further increase of the methanol content leads to an abrupt reswelling of the collapsed chains at x(m) > approximately 50 mol %. The sharp reentrant swelling-to-collapse-to-swelling transition was attributed to the water-methanol complexation instead of the preferential adsorption effect. Our results also suggest that the water-methanol complexation is not induced by hydrophobic interaction but by hydrogen bonding.     

Emulsion stabilisation using polysaccharide–protein complexes

There is a great deal of interest in the Food Industry in the use of polysaccharides and proteins to stabilise oil-in-water emulsions and there is a particular interest nowadays in the use of polysaccharide–protein complexes. There are three classes of complexes namely; (a) naturally-occurring complexes in which protein residues are covalently attached to the polysaccharide chains as is the case, for example, with gum Arabic; (b) Maillard conjugates, which are formed by interaction of the reducing end of a polysaccharide with an amine group on a protein forming a covalent bond; and (c) electrostatic complexes formed between a polysaccharide and a protein with opposite net charge. This review sets out our current understanding of the nature of these different polysaccharide–protein complexes and their ability to stabilise oil-in-water emulsions.     

Adsorption of normal and branched paraffins in faujasite zeolites NaY, HY, Pt/NaY and USY

The effect of chain length and branching of paraffins (from C6 to C12) on adsorption and diffusion in zeolites NaY, Pt/NaY, HY and USY has been investigated using the chromatographic method at 275–400°C. The Henry constants of the paraffins increase exponentially with the chain length (with a factor two per extra carbon group), the heats of adsorption increase with circa 7 kJ/mol per extra carbon group. Multicomponent sorption experiments reveal that longer chains are adsorbed preferentially over shorter chains, even at higher loadings. The multicomponent adsorption can be reasonably well described by an extended Langmuir adsorption isotherm, in which the stronger adsorption of the longer chains is reflected by their higher Henry constants. The molecular shape and zeolite type within this FAU group has only a small influence on the adsorption properties. Mass transfer in the pellets as used in catalytic conditions seems to be limited by macropore diffusion, rather than by micropore diffusion, which cannot be measured with the chromatographic method. Increasing the Si/Al-ratio of the zeolite reduces the adsorption capacity, but does not influence the relative adsorption properties.     

Synthesis of polyampholyte microgels from colloidal salts of pectinic acid and their application as pH-responsive emulsifiers

A novel method for obtaining cross-linked microgels of apple pectin has been introduced. This method is based on the Ugi four-component condensation in colloidal suspensions of pectinic acid and amines. Using various processing parameters (the polysaccharide concentration, the type and density of crosslink, and the optimal pH range), particles with controlled colloidal properties have been obtained. Lightly cross-linked polysaccharide chains acquire anionic character due to deprotonation of the carboxyl groups at pH?9–10. Increasing the degree of cross-linking leads to a polyampholyte microgel, which can be protonated in acidic medium or deprotonated in basic medium. Polyampholyte microgels derived from apple pectin have proved to be an effective Pickering emulsifier at low concentrations and pH?2–3, forming stable oil-in-water emulsions. These Pickering emulsions exhibited pH-responsive behavior: raising the solution pH to 10 resulted in immediate demulsification due to the destabilization of microgel network at the oil–water interface.     

Conformational, concomitant polymorphs of 4,4-diphenyl-2,5-cyclohexadienone: conformation and lattice energy compensation in the kinetic and thermodynamic forms

4,4-Diphenyl-2,5-cyclohexadienone (1) crystallized as four conformational polymorphs and a record number of 19 crystallographically independent molecules have been characterized by low-temperature X-ray diffraction: form A (P2(1), Z'=1), form B (P1, Z'=4), form C (P1, Z'=12), and form D (Pbca, Z'=2). We have now confirmed by variable-temperature powder X-ray diffraction that form A is the thermodynamic polymorph and B is the kinetic form of the enantiotropic system A-D. Differences in the packing of the molecules in these polymorphs result from different acidic C-H donors approaching the C=O acceptor in C-H...O chains and in synthons I-III, depending on the molecular conformation. The strength of the C-HO interaction in a particular structure correlates with the number of symmetry-independent conformations (Z') in that polymorph, that is, a short C-HO interaction leads to a high Z' value. Molecular conformation (Econf) and lattice energy (Ulatt) contributions compensate each other in crystal structures A, B, and D resulting in very similar total energies: Etotal of the stable form A=1.22 kcal mol(-1), the metastable form B=1.49 kcal mol(-1), and form D=1.98 kcal mol(-1). Disappeared polymorph C is postulated as a high-Z', high-energy precursor of kinetic form B. Thermodynamic form A matches with the third lowest energy frame based on the value of Ulatt determined in the crystal structure prediction (Cerius2, COMPASS) by full-body minimization. Re-ranking the calculated frames on consideration of both Econf (Spartan 04) and Ulatt energies gives a perfect match of frame #1 with stable structure A. Diphenylquinone 1 is an experimental benchmark used to validate accurate crystal structure energies of the kinetic and thermodynamic polymorphs separated by <0.3 kcal mol(-1) (approximately 1.3 kJ mol(-1)).     

Quantifying the role of water in protein-carbohydrate interactions

Water-mediated interactions play a key role in carbohydrate-lectin binding, where the interactions involve a conserved water that is separated from the bulk solvent and present a bridge between the side chains of the protein and the carbohydrate ligand. To apply quantum mechanical methods to examine the role of conserved waters, we present an analysis in which the relevant carbohydrate atoms are modeled by methanol, and in which the protein is replaced by a limited number of amino acid side chains. Clusters containing a conserved water and a representative amino acid fragment were also examined to determine the influence of amino acid side chains on interaction energies. To quantify the differential binding energies of methanol versus water, quantum mechanical calculations were performed at the B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,3pd)//B3LYP/6-31+G(d) level in which either a methanol molecule was bound to the conserved water (liganded state) or in which a water molecule replaces the methanol (unliganded state). Not surprisingly, the binding of a water to clusters containing charged amino acid side chains was more favorable by 1.55 to 7.23 kcal/mol than that for the binding of a water to the corresponding pure water clusters. In contrast, the binding energy of water to clusters containing polar-uncharged amino acid side chains ranged from 4.35 kcal/mol less favorable to 4.72 kcal/mol more favorable than for binding to the analogous pure water clusters. The overall trend for the binding of methanol versus water, in any of the clusters, favored methanol by an average value of 1.05 kcal/mol. To extend these studies to a complex between a protein (Concanavalin A) and its carbohydrate ligand, a cluster was examined that contained the side chains of three key amino acids, namely asparagine, aspartate, and arginine, as well as a key water molecule, arranged as in the X-ray diffraction structure of Con A. Again, using methanol as a model for the endogenous carbohydrate ligand, energies of -5.94 kcal/mol and -5.70 kcal/mol were obtained for the binding of methanol and water, respectively, to the Con A-water cluster. The extent to which cooperativity enhanced the binding energies has been quantified in terms of nonadditive three-body contributions. In general, the binding of water or methanol to neutral dimers formed cooperative clusters; in contrast, the cooperativity in charged clusters depended on the overall geometry as well as the charge.     

有机高分子固载钯催化剂的羰基化和加氢催化性能

本文利用耐温性能较好的主链上含有多个配位原子(N,O)能成膜的直链高分子杂环联苯聚醚酮(PEK),带酚酞侧基的聚醚砜(PES-C)和两种聚酰亚胺(PCK和PIK)为载体固载PdCl~2,制备了高分子固载钯催化剂。研究了它们在烯丙基溴的常压羰基化反应和1-辛烯的常压加氢反应中的催化性能。考察了催化剂的制备方法、Pd含量、溶剂和高分子的主链结构对催化剂活性的影响。催化剂Pd-PEK(Ⅰ) (Pd wt%=0.22%)和Pd-PES-C(Ⅱ)(Pd wt%=0.28%)在温和的条件下对上述两反应都表现出了很高的催化活性。在极低的Pd含量(Pd wt%=0.04%)时,催化剂Pd-PES-C(Ⅲ)显示出了特别高的初活性,TOF~m~a~x分别达345mol CO/mol Pd·min和493mol H~2/mol Pd·min。实验结果表明制备方法等因素对催化剂的活性有很大的影响。     

Enhancement of palmarumycin C12 and C13 production in liquid culture of the endophytic fungus Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12 by oligosaccharides from its host plant Dioscorea zingiberensis

Three crude oligosaccharides were respectively prepared by acid hydrolysis of three polysaccharides, which were water-extracted polysaccharide (WEP), sodium hydroxide-extracted polysaccharide (SEP) and acid-extracted polysaccharide (AEP) from the rhizomes of Dioscorea zingiberensis. Among the three oligosaccharides, the crude oligosaccharide prepared by acid hydrolysis of WEP was found to be the most efficient elicitor to enhance the production of palmarumycins C(12) and C(13) in liquid culture of endophytic fungus Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12. When OW was applied to the medium at 300 mg/L on day 3 of culture, the maximal yields of palmarumycin C(12) (87.96 mg/L) and palmarumycin C(13) (422.28 mg/L) were achieved on day 15 of culture, which were 9.83 and 3.24-fold in comparison with those (8.95 and 130.43 mg/L) of control, respectively. The results indicate that addition of the oligosaccharides from the host plant D. zingiberensis should be an effective strategy for enhancing production of palmarumycins C(12) and C(13) in liquid culture of endophytic fungus Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12.