Purification, characterization, antioxidant and moisture-preserving activities of polysaccharides from Rosa rugosa petals
Chaoli Zhang1, Fusheng Zhao1, Ronghui Li2
1College of Pharmacology, Mudanjiang Medical University, Mudanjiang 157011, PR China.
Abstract:
The present study, we prepared polysaccharides from Rosa rugosa petals (RRPS) using hot-water extraction and purified the polysaccharides by chromatography to obtain RRPS-1 and RRPS-2. Preliminary structural features of RRPS were characterized by different instrumental methods, such as HPGPC, FT-IR, and GC analysis. The average molecular weights of RRPS-1 and RRPS-2 were 8.8 kDa and 443.8 kDa, respectively. Then, antioxidant and moisture-preserving activities of RRPS were determined in vitro. The analysis of antioxidant activities suggested that RRPS-2 had good potential for scavenging activity of radicals. We also found that the RRPS-2 has strong moisture-preserving activity in vitro. These results clearly indicated that RRPS-2 might have a good potential to be utilized in pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries.
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