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A study of the flocculation mechanism of aKluyveromyces marxianus strain, as compared with a strain ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae, is described. The involvement of cell wall proteins in the yeast's flocculation mechanism was studied by methyl-esterification or pepsin or acid phosphatase incubation of the cells. The influence of several ions on the flocculation mechanism was assayed. The obtained results indicated that the structure and/or the spatial arrangement of the cell wall groups involved in flocculation are not the same inK. marxianus as inS. cerevisiae.
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Sousa, M.J., Teixeira, J.A. & Mota, M. Differences in the flocculation mechanism ofKluyveromyces marxianus andSaccharomyces cerevisiae . Biotechnol Lett 14, 213–218 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01023361
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