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LITTLE is known of the qualitative and quantitative composition that may occur in the cell wall of fungi. Cochrane1 has claimed that the most serious defect in our knowledge of cell-wall composition in the filamentous fungi is the fact that no ‘pure’ wall material is yet available. The major sources of error are the inclusion of extraneous substances in the preparation, and the loss of wall material during purification. Several workers have described results of the cell-wall composition based on X-ray diffraction patterns. Results from other methods (isolation of derivatives from a hydrolysate, microchemical tests, etc.) are usually in agreement with those of X-ray analysis, but are in most cases unsatisfactory.
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AGUIRRE, M., VILLANUEVA, J. Preparations of Cell-Walls of Some Fungi. Nature 194, 791 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194791a0
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