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. 2017 Jan 24;7:41193. doi: 10.1038/srep41193

Figure 1. Monosaccharide composition of EPSWH15 (black filled bars) and EPS5B5 (white filled bars) modelled using experimentally measured EPS monomer masses (Mw) and relative monosaccharide abundances determined in the present study.

Figure 1

Monosaccharide types: mannose, Man; glucose, Glc; galactose, Gal; xylose, Xyl; rhamnose, Rha; glucuronic acid, GlcA; galacturonic acid, GlaA. For each ~1.4 MDa sized EPS, the approximate number of monosaccharides for each monosaccharide type was calculated according to the equation: 1,400,000 (Da) ≤ n[Σ(Mi)(ai)], where n is an integer multiplicative factor (the independent variable), and Mi and ai are the molecular mass and experimentally determined relative abundance, respectively, for each monosaccharide type i.