Biosynthesis of streptococcal cell walls: A rhamnose polysaccharide.
Protoplast membranes from Streptococcus pyogenes incorporated rhamnose into a preexisting polysaccharide when incubated with thymidine diphosphate rhamnose-C(14). This polysaccharide, when extracted from the membranes, did not give a precipitin reaction with group A antisera, but could be coprecipitated with added group A polysaccharide by acetone. It is presumed to be a precursor to group specific polysaccharide of the streptococcal cell wall.
D002462:Cell Membrane; D002473:Cell Wall; D010429:Pentoses; D011134:Polysaccharides; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D012210:Rhamnose; D013291:Streptococcus; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes
D010429:Pentoses; D011134:Polysaccharides; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D012210:Rhamnose
PENTOSES; POLYSACCHARIDES; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES