G9752
Gum arabic from acacia tree
branched polysaccharide
Synonym(s):
Acacia gum
biological source
plant (Acacia)
form
powder
color
white to faint beige
storage temp.
room temp
Quality Level
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General description
Gum arabic from acacia tree is extracted from the branches of Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal trees. It is an edible dried gummy exudate. Gum Arabic has high solubility and is used in food industry as a stabilizer, emulsifier, flavouring agent, thickener and surface-finishing agent. It initiates turbidity or hinders sugar crystallization. Gum arabic inhibits color pigmentation and protein precipitation in wine production.
Application
Gum arabic from acacia tree has been used:
- as an emulsifying agent to determine lipase activity in shrimps
- for the visualization of mossy fiber sprouting
- as an immunogen and for coating microtitre wells in plate-trapped antigen ELISAs (PTA-ELISAs)
- for silver enhancement for immunohistochemistry
- as a component for Timm′s staining solution
- in nitrocellulose-based soil adhesion assay
- to separate few-layer graphene (FLG) from bulk graphite layers
Other Notes
Believed to be a branched polymer of galactose, rhamnose, arabinose, and glucuronic acid as the calcium, magnesium, and potassium salts with a mol. wt. of approx. 250,000.
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Storage Class
11 - Combustible Solids
wgk
WGK 3
flash_point_f
Not applicable
flash_point_c
Not applicable
ppe
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Acacia gum: History of the future
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Xenograft of human umbilical mesenchymal stem cells from Wharton?s jelly as a potential therapy for rat pilocarpine-induced epilepsy
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Brain, behavior, and immunity, 54(3), 45-58 (2016)
A quantitative method for the high throughput screening for the soil adhesion properties of plant and microbial polysaccharides and exudates
Akhtar J, et al.
Plant and Soil, 1-9 (2018)
Purification and characterization of an intracellular lipase from pleopods of whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)
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