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INVESTIGATIONS of the polysaccharides of Mycobacterium phlei have been few and mainly concerned with those secreted into the culture medium. Thus Masucci and McAlpine1 found that a polysaccharide which they isolated from culture filtrates contained D-mannose and D-arabinose. Tennent and Watson2 isolated a similar product and showed that the molecular weight was 7,300. In the present investigation the intracellular polysaccharides of M. phlei were studied.
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GERMAN, R., JONES, A. & NADARAJAH, M. Polysaccharides of Mycobacterium phlei . Nature 189, 1008–1009 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1891008a0
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