A polymer containing glucose and aminohexuronic acid isolated from the cell walls of micrococcus lysodeikticus
- 1 March 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 86 (3), 475-483
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0860475
Abstract
A glucose-rich polymer from cell walls of Micrococcus lysodeikticus was acidic but did not contain amino-acids, glucosamine or muramic-acid. The acidic component was an acid-labile amino-hexuronic-acid. Reduction of carboxyl-groups of the polymer to primary alcohol groups gave rise to mannosamine suggesting that the acidic component was 2-amino-2-deoxymannuronic-acid.Keywords
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