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MICROBIAL CELL WALLS 



and Pavlik ^~ are presented in Tables 11 and 12. It is evi- 

 dent from these results that the peptide composition may 

 vary widely from one group to another, although in some 



TABLE 11 



Relative Molecular Proportions of the Principal Amino Acids 

 in Cell Walls 



Glutamic 

 Walls from Lysine Acid Glycine Serine Alanine 



correctly shown 

 above. 



Salton and Pavlik 3" have been corrected 



