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Soluble polysaccharides of Rhodotorula flava

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1. The cellular and extracellular xylomannans of the yeast organismRh. flava are polymers of similar structure.

2. The xylomannan ofRh, flava is a branched polysaccharide, the main chain of which consists of D-mannose residues bound by α-1 → 3 linkages, and the side chains consist predominantly of xylose units.

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Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 15–19, January–February, 1972.

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Vitovskaya, G.A., Elinov, N.P., Kozhina, I.S. et al. Soluble polysaccharides of Rhodotorula flava. Chem Nat Compd 8, 12–15 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00564426

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