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. 2020 May 10;18(5):248. doi: 10.3390/md18050248

Table 1.

Chemical structures of the repeating units of CRG from algae belonging to families Gigartinaceae and Tichocarpaceae.

Source of Carrageenans Type of CRG Structure of Disaccharide
Repeating Unit
Mw, kDa
C. armatus
Gigartinaceae
Kappa (κ) graphic file with name marinedrugs-18-00248-i001.jpg 560
Lambda (λ) graphic file with name marinedrugs-18-00248-i002.jpg 185
T. crinitus
Tichocarpaceae
Kappa/beta (κ/β)
(60:40)
graphic file with name marinedrugs-18-00248-i003.jpg 172