Colonial growth of Neurospora. Sorbose and enzymes alter the composition of the cell wall and induce morphological changes.
L-Sorbose, an agent which induces colonial growth in Neurospora crassa, also induces structural changes in the cell wall. Acid hydrolyzates of cell walls isolated from sorbose-grown (colonial) hyphae contain more glucosamine and less glucose than do hydrolyzates of cell walls obtained from normally growing hyphae. Snail digestive juice, an agent which effects a structural change in the cell wall of N. crassa by liberating from it large quantities of glucose, has been found to induce colonial growth.
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D002473:Cell Wall; D005944:Glucosamine; D005947:Glucose; D009491:Neurospora / Q000208:ethnology*; D009492:Neurospora crassa; D013013:Sorbose / Q000494:pharmacology*
D005947:Glucose; D005944:Glucosamine; D013013:Sorbose
NEUROSPORA/culture; SORBOSE/pharmacology