Abstract
Arabinan polysaccharide side-chains are present in both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Corynebacterium glutamicum in the heteropolysaccharide arabinogalactan (AG), and in M. tuberculosis in the lipoglycan, lipoarabinomannan (LAM). Herein, we show by quantitative sugar and glycosyl linkage analysis that C. glutamicum possesses a much smaller LAM version, Cg-LAM, characterised by single t-Araf residues linked to the
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2621-2629 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Microbiology |
Volume | 153 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2007 |