TABLE 2.

Cell wall peptide composition of several strains of S. pneumoniae

Peptide	% Peptide in:
	R36A (murMA)	Pen6 (murMB2)	Hun45 (murMB1)	DE1 (murMB3)	KY17 (murMB5)
1	13.3	2.6	4.5	10.8	3.4
2	3.4	0.7	0.5	1.4	0.6
3	2.8	14.3	7.2	1.0	28.5
I	1.8	14.4	24.1	23.4	11.2
II	3.4	2.7	5.1	3.1	0.8
4	21.0	3.2	4.4	6.0	7.2
III	1.3	3.5	6.7	6.9	2.1
5	12.7	2.2	0.9	0.5	2.9
6	7.1	2.5	2.8	9.3	1.9
7	7.4	11.1	1.4	0.4	19.7
IV	2.6	6.5	4.7	0.6	4.1
V	2.8	12.3	8.1	3.7	5.2
8	7.8	2.5	1.4	0.6	5.8
VI	6.6	10.1	19.1	27.5	2.0
9	6.0	11.6	9.0	4.9	4.5
Total	100	100	100	100	100
Monomers	26	38	48	47	47
Multimers	74	62	52	53	53
Linear	50	12	14	23	17
Branched	50	88	86	77	83
Branched/linear	1.0	7.4	6.4	3.3	4.9