Arrangement of glycan chains in the sacculus of Escherichia coli
- 1 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 136 (2) , 723-729
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.136.2.723-729.1978
Abstract
A novel of Escherichia coli endopeptidase was used for a selective partial hydrolysis of the peptide bridges which interlink the glycan chains in E. coli sacculi. The loosening of the murein network revealed, in the electron microscope, a preferential orientation of the glycan chains, more or less perpendicular to the length axis of the cell. Control incubations with E. coli transglycosylase or egg-white lysozyme did not leave ordered structures behind.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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