Table 1.
Muropeptide composition
| Strain | % of muropeptide(s)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monomers | Dimers | Trimers | Oligomers | Cross-linkage | |
| 616 | 6.13 ± 0.16 | 12.84 ± 1.07 | 9.67 ± 1.13 | 71.36 ± 1.58 | 77.09 ± 0.47 |
| 701 | 6.69 ± 0.14 | 13.98 ± 0.87 | 9.89 ± 1.39 | 69.44 ± 2.19 | 76.08 ± 0.61 |
| 703 | 6.71 ± 0.21 | 13.93 ± 0.89 | 9.89 ± 1.11 | 69.47 ± 1.92 | 76.08 ± 0.59 |
a
The numbers give the sums of the peak areas of the indicated fraction. Each number is the mean value (± SD) of results of four different analyses. Cross-linkage was calculated as described before (28): 0.5 × dimers (%) + 0.67 × trimers (%) + 0.9 × oligomers (%).