NEW SACCHARIDE AND ITS USE AS ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new saccharide having antimicrobial activity. SOLUTION: This new saccharide is such as to give a retention time of 24.0±0.2 min when the retention time for a reference material maltose is 8.8±0.2 min and that for a 2nd reference material fructose is 12.5±0.2 min when assayed by high-performance liquid chromatography using a column (MCI GEL CK 08 S, manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Ltd.) packed with a strongly acidic ion exchange resin consisting of a copolymer of styrene and divinylbenzene with a degree of crosslinking of 8% and containing sodium sulfonate group as the ion exchange group at a column temperature of 40 deg.C with water as the solvent at a flow rate of 1 ml/min.