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Osmoregulated periplasmic glucans (OPG) are general components of the envelopes of Gram-negative bacteria and share the following features: i) glucose as the sole sugar; ii) localization in the periplasmic space; iii) synthesis under osmotic control and particularly abundant when the medium osmolarity is low.
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Altabe, S., Talaga, P., Wieruszeski, JM., Lippens, G., Ugalde, R., Bohin, JP. (1998). Osmoregulated Periplasmic Glucans of Azospirillum brasilense . In: Elmerich, C., Kondorosi, A., Newton, W.E. (eds) Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the 21st Century. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5159-7_235
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