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Isolation and Preparation of Bacterial Cell Walls for Compositional Analysis by Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography
Published on: January 15, 2014
Cell wall peptidoglycan and lipid composition of the phytopathogen Corynebacterium rathayi (smith)
1Department of Microbiology, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT, U.K.
Abstract:
Strains received as Corynebacterium rathayi were heterogeneous on the basis of cell wall peptidoglycan and lipid composition. The cell wall peptidoglycan of Cor. rathayi NCPPB 797 and 2980 contained diaminobutyric acid as the dibasic amino acid. Menaquinone, fatty acid and polar lipid data indicate these strains are closely related to the other wheat pathogens, Cor. iranicum and Cor. tritici. In contrast, Cor. rathayi ATCC 13659 possessed a cell wall peptidoglycan based upon lysine. Cor. rathayi ATCC 13659 is similar to representatives of the genus Arthrobacter on the basis of lipid composition.
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