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A REVIEW of the literature gives some evidence which indicates that the polysaccharides of Hypnea species and Chondrus crispus (carrageenin) are identical. Clingman's study of H. specifera1 showed these polysaccharides to contain D-galactose and 3,6-anhydro-D-galactose, the same basic components found on analysis of Chondrus extracts2. Hypnea extractives have a potassium-sensitive fraction (termed the ϰ-fraction3), as does Chondrus3, which are degraded by a cell-free bacterial preparation from Pseudomonas carrageenovora. This preparation is reported to be specific not just for carrageenin but for its ϰ-fraction4.
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HAMILTON, R., CARROLL, J. A Comparison of Polysaccharides of Hypnea musciformis and Chondrus crispus. Nature 196, 1200–1201 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1961200a0
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