Kinetic evidence for intramolecular conformational ordering of the extracellular polysaccharide (xanthan) from Xanthomonas campestris
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 12,p. 545-547
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39800000545
Abstract
The salt (K+) induced disorder–order transition of xanthan has been monitored by stopped-flow polarimetry, and shows first-order kinetics, indicating that the conformational ordering is intra- rather than intermolecular.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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