Abstract: | Bioglycans have been isolated from 23 species of marine invertebrates from the Sea of Japan and a comparative study of them has been made. It has been shown that these bioglycans possess immunomodulating activity and consist of complexes of polysaccharides with a protein component.Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 738–742, November–December, 1990. |