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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2015 Jun 26;6:7481. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8481

Figure 6. Growth profile of wild type and mutants of B. ovatus on xylans.

Figure 6

WT and PUL deletion mutants were cultured in minimal media containing different xylans at 0.5% (w/v) as the sole carbon source. Birchwood glucuronoxylan (BGX; a) and wheat arabinoxylan (WAX; b) are relatively simple, sparsely decorated structures, while corn (c), sorghum (d) and rice (e) xylans are more complex heavily decorated glucuronoarabinoxylans (GAXs). The high starting OD for BGX is due to the background turbidity of the polysaccharide. A total of 6 replicate cultures were monitored at 20 min intervals for each substrate and used to generate the average growth curves shown.