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. 2008 May 2;190(13):4541–4548. doi: 10.1128/JB.00249-08

TABLE 2.

Structural parameters of B. anthracis spore PG

Sample % Muramic acid witha:
Lactam l-Ala Tripeptide Tetrapeptide Cross-link Deacetylation of NAG
Dormant 48.5 13.9 4.2 34.4 5.6 11.3
Germinated pellet 35.9 11.6 21.8 31.2 7.7 30.0
Exudate after mutanolysin digestion 52.0 16.2 0.9 30.9 2.0 7.3
Exudate before mutanolysin digestion 51.7 24.5 0.3 23.4 0.2 3.8
a

All values are averages of three analyses of independent spore preparations. The standard deviation of each value was ≤4%.