TABLE 2.
Sugar compositions of the polysaccharide fraction of cell walls of strain L. lactis subsp. cremoris NZ4114 and the parental strain grown in the presence or absence of nisin
| Strain | Nisin concn (ng ml−1)
|
Sugar composition of polysaccharide (mol%)
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preculture | Subculture | Rhamnose | Galactose | Glucose | |
| NZ9000 | 0 | 0 | 51.3 ± 0.1 | 15.5 ± 0.2 | 33.1 ± 0.0 |
| NZ4114 | 1 | 1 | 53.5 ± 1.2 | 14.5 ± 1.3 | 32.4 ± 1.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 54.1 ± 2.1 | 14.4 ± 2.3 | 31.9 ± 0.8 | |
| 0.5 | 0 | 48.1 ± 1.5 | 18.2 ± 0.2 | 34.7 ± 2.2 | |
| 0.3 | 0 | 48.2 ± 1.1 | 17.1 ± 0.0 | 34.7 ± 1.1 | |
| 0 | 0 | NGa | NG | NG | |
a
NG, no growth.