Chitin-glucan improves important pathophysiological features of irritable bowel syndrome

Figure 10  Molecular modelling of interaction between phospholipomannan and chitin-glucan. A: Trapping of phospholipomannan (PLM) (colored in yellow) by chitin-glucan (CG) (chitin moiety colored in orange and glucan moiety colored in green); B: Folding of CG showing the large cavity that hosts PLM in its middle (chitin moiety colored in orange and glucan moiety colored in green); C: Lipophilic potential surfaces (according to the lipophilicity scale from blue for the minimum until brown for the maximum) of PLM trapped by CG (chitin moiety colored in orange and glucan moiety colored in green); D: Interactions of PLM (colored in magenta) with CG (chitin moiety colored in orange and glucan moiety colored in green) via a network of 13 hydrogen bonds (yellow dashed line).