Summary
The difficultly hydrolyzable glucan fromChara aculeolata is similar to the cellulose of higher plants in the structure of its main chain, consisting of a linear polymer composed of D-glucopyranose units with a β-(1→4) linkage.
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M. V. Lomonosov Odessa Technological Institute of the Food Industry. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 480–483, July–August, 1973.
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Dudkin, M.S., Cherno, N.K. & Areshidze, I.V. A glucan from Chara aculeolata. Chem Nat Compd 9, 452–454 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00568626
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