Biosynthesis of Cellulose by Acetobacter Xylinum. II. Morphological Observations on the Formation of Cellulose Microfibrils by Acetobacter Xylinum
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Synthesis of Cellulose by Acetobacter Xylinum
Appearance of cellulose microfibrils in the medium of a suspension of cells of Acetobacter xylinum in buffered glucose solution was preceded by a stage during which the cellulose in the medium was amorphous within the available resolution. The size of the vertical axis of the microfibrils of the bacterial cellulose was found on the basis of measurement of shadow length to be only about 16 A. In...
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عنوان ژورنال: Polymer Journal
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0032-3896,1349-0540
DOI: 10.1295/polymj.7.147