• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1020-1025
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• 1995

A new method was developed to prepare ${\beta}-1$, 4-mannotriose by the enzymatic hydrolysis of white copra meal and the subsequent elimination of monosaccharides and mannobiose from the resulted hydrolysate with a yeast. The optimum pH and temperature for the mannanase were 6 and $50^{\circ}C$, respectively. The mannanase was stable between pH 5.5 and 7 after 2hr treatment at $30^{\circ}C$. White copra meal(70g) was hgydrolyzed with the mannanase(3,450units/500ml) at pH 6 and $50^{\circ}C$ for 24hr. The hydolysis products were monosaccharides, mannobiose and mannotriose. By the elimination of monosaccharides and mannobiose from the hydrolysis products with Candida guilliermondii IFO 0556, 12.1g of mannotriose was obtained without the use of chromatographic techiniques.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.179-183
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• 2000

$\beta$-1,4-Mannotriose was prepared b he enzymatic hydrolysis of white copra meal (WCM) and the subsequent elimination of monosaccharides from the resultant hydrolysate with a yeast. The enzyme system from sunflower seed hydrolyzed WCM and produced monosaccharides and $\beta$-1,4-mannotriose without other oligomers at the final stage of the reaction. WCM(50g) was hydrolyzed at 5$0^{\circ}C$ and pH 4.5 for 24 hr with crude enzyme solution (500 mL) from sunflower seed. By the elimination of monosaccharides from the hydrolysis products with a yeast (Candida glaebosa), 8.1 g of crystalline mannotriose was obtained without the use of chromatographic techniques. After 48hr of yeast cultivation, the total sugar content decreased from 4.6% to 3.5%, whereas the average degree of polymerization increased from 2.3 to 3.1.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.509-514
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• 1994

Penicillium purpurogenum , which produces a copra galactomannan degrading enzyme extracellularyl, was isolated from soil , and its properties and formation condition of mannooligosaccharides were investigated. The optimum ph and temperature for the activity of the mannanase were 5.5 and 55$^{\circ}C$, respectively. The mannanase was stable in between pH 3.5 and 7.0 after 2 hr incubation at 3$0^{\circ}C$ lost 90% of the original activity after incubation at 55$\AA$ and pH 5.5 for 2 hr. With two different substrate concentration, hydrolysis of white coprameal proceeded rapidly at the early stage of the reaction, but gradually solwed thereafter especially at a higher concentration of copra meal (20 %). The enzyme hydrolyzed white copra meal to monosaccharides, mannobiose and mannotriose at the final stage of the reaction.