glucuronan

plural glucuronans

1. countableuncountableA polymer or oligomer of glucuronate, often extracted from various algae.

   In experiment with Cd salt containing media presence of glucuronan decreased Cd concentration both in shoots and roots comparing to control and to Str5 effect.

   2006, Jean-Louis Morel, Phytoremediation of Metal-Contaminated Soils

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   Although the oligoglucuronans expressed an elicitor capacity in PAL activity twice higher than that of the glucuronan polymer, its induction was less important than the oligoulvans.

   2013, Hydroxybenzoic Acids—Advances in Research and Application, published 2013

   Glucuronans are often co-extracted together with ulvans from the cell wall of Ulva sp. with the use of hot water that often contains a calcium chelating agent such as sodium oxalate; ion-exchange chromatography as been used to eliminate glucuronans from the ulvan preparations.

   2015, Se-Kwon Kim, Springer Handbook of Marine Biotechnology