TABLE 2.
Glycosyl composition in spore coat material isolated from strains bearing the indicated genotypes
| Genotype (strain) | μg of material per 108 cells |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WT (DK1622) | wzm epsV (PH1285) | ΔexoC (PH1261) | ΔexoC wzm epsV (PH1296) | Δnfs (PH1200) | |
| Dry weight | 148 | 89 | 46 | 8 | 180 |
| Estimated % carbohydrate | 92 | 81 | 64 | 30 | 85 |
| (N-Acetyl)galactosamine | 94 | 61 | NDa | ND | 113 |
| Glucose | 24 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 28 |
| (N-Acetyl)glucosamine | 8 | 5 | 3 | ND | 5 |
| Xylose | 5 | ND | 3 | ND | 3 |
| Rhamnose | 5 | ND | 3 | ND | 4 |
| Mannose | 1 | ND | <1 | ND | <1 |
| Galactose | <1 | ND | <1 | ≪1 | <1 |
a ND means none detected.