Affiliation:
1. Pioneering Research and Food Laboratories, U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Massachusetts 01760
Abstract
Increased resistance of weathered cotton cellulose to microbial breakdown has been shown to be the result of development of resistance to the action of fungal cellulases. Photochemical activity during weathering exposure transforms the cellulose into an altered substrate that prevents access of the enzymes to susceptible sites of the cellulose molecule. It is postulated that the altered substrate consists of cellulose molecules of low degrees of polymerization, with some ring openings and altered chain ends. Weathered cellulose fails to adsorb cellulases.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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