PREPARATION OF BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE OF HIBRIDIZED ENZYME SUSCEPTIBILITY

Abstract

Acetobacter xylinum strains produced bacterial cellulose incorporated N-acetyl-glucosamine (GlcNAc) in molecule (N-AcGBC) in medium containing GlcNAc. The profiles of the N-AcGBC and normal bacterial cellulose (BC) microfibrils treated with cellulase or lysozyme were observed by scanning electron microscopy. After the treatment with lysozyme, the morphological changes of the N-AcGBC microfibrils of pellicle or homogenates were found. Cellulase did not make any difference between BC and N-AcGBC.