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Serological Relationship between Galactans from Normal Bovine Lung and from Mycoplasma mycoides

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A GALACTAN (pneumogalactan) isolated from bovine lung1,2 precipitated 28 per cent of pneumococcal polysaccharide type XIV antiserum3. This suggested that both polysaccharides have galactose residues of similar linkages, possibly β-1:6, β-1:3 or β-1:3:64, and agreed with the postulated, structures of type XIV pneumococcal polysaccharide4 and of lung galactan2.

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  1. M. SHIFRINE: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, on leave from University of California, Davis.

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  1. East African Veterinary Research Organization, Muguga, P.O. Box 32, Kikuyu, Kenya

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SHIFRINE, M., GOURLAY, R. Serological Relationship between Galactans from Normal Bovine Lung and from Mycoplasma mycoides. Nature 208, 498–499 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208498a0

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