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Estimation of xyloglucan in vegetables by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
1Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Science of Living, Osaka City University, Japan.
Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
We prepared the antibody specific against plant xyloglucan and applied it to enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in order to estimate xyloglucan contents in several vegetables. In this experiment, xyloglucan was detected in the 24% aqueous potassium hydroxide-soluble fractions of tomato, cabbage, lettuce, and eggplant. The xyloglucan contents of these vegetables were estimated to be 1.4 mg, 54 micrograms, 14 micrograms, and 4 micrograms per one hundred grams of their edible portions, respectively, using tamarind xyloglucan as a standard xyloglucan.