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The effect of gamma-radiation on yeast cell wall glucans

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The solubility and the degree of degradation of water-insoluble particulate glucan isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae were studied after γ-irradiation. The different radiolytic stability of β/1–3/-, β/1–6/- and α-glucan linkages of the complex polysaccharide can be used to achieve its fragmentation and provide a new insight to its macromolecular structure.

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  1. Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    J. Šandula & A. Ebringerová

  2. Faculty of Chemical Technology, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    J. Pružinec

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Šandula, J., Ebringerová, A. & Pružinec, J. The effect of gamma-radiation on yeast cell wall glucans. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 144, 287–295 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02225703

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