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INDEX 



Glucosamine, 20, 41, 42, 50, 60 

 ^-Glucosaminidase, 62 

 Glucosaminide, 71 

 Glucose, 20, 29, 43 

 ^-Glucosidase, 60 

 D-Glutamic acid in walls, 35, 49 

 Glycerophosphate, polymers in 

 bacteria, 45 



polymers in walls, 44 

 Glycine, as C-terminal groups, 38 



in cell walls, 31 

 Glycosidic bonds, 25, 59, 60 

 Gonyaulax polyedra, 21 

 Gram-negative bacteria, action of 

 penicillin on, 73, 75 



cell walls of, 18, 48 



envelope of, 4, 27 



membrane of, 28 

 Gram-positive bacteria, action of 

 penicillin on, 72 



cell walls of, 18,28 

 Guanosine diphosphomannose, 65 



Halobacterium halohium, 8, 10, 



14 

 Halophilic bacteria, 15 

 Hemicellulose, 19 

 Heptoses, 52 

 Hexitol, 60 



Hexosamine, 19, 22, 29, 69 

 Hydrazinolysis, 37 



Incorporation of amino acids, 68, 



72 

 Inhibition of mucopeptide synthe- 

 sis, 69, 70 

 Inorganic phosphate, 46 

 Intermediates, cell-wall, 72, 77 

 Isolation, of cell walls, 3, 26 

 n-lsomers of amino acids, 35, 49 



Lactic acid bacteria, 35 

 Lactobacillus acidophilus, 36 

 Lactobacillus arabinosus, 33, 37, 



44 

 Lactobacillus bifidus, 71 

 Lactobacillus bulgaricus, 36, 45 

 Lactobacillus casei, 36, 42, 45 

 Lactobacillus citrovorum, 34, 36 

 Lactobacillus delbriickii, 45 

 Lactobacillus mesenteroides, 36 

 Lactobacillus pentosus, 36 

 Lactobacillus plantarum, 36 

 O-Lactyl, ethers of glucosamine, 

 42 



side chain of muramic acid, 66 

 Lampropedia hyalina, 11, 14 

 Lipid, 19,21,26,49 

 Lipo-polysaccharide, 50 

 Lysine, deprivation of, 76 



eNH^ group of, 34 



in cell walls, 32, 35 

 Lysis, of bacterial cells, 58 



osmotic, 4, 15 

 Lysozyme, action of egg white, 58 



digestion of cell walls with, 50, 

 59 



disaccharide liberated by, 59 



effect of O-acetyl groups on, 48 



glycosidic linkages broken by, 

 59,63 



products of action on walls, 59 



protoplast formation by, 5 

 resistant mutants, 48, 63 



substrates for, 59 



tetrasaccharide liberated by, 60 



Macromolecules, in cell walls, 8, 



14 

 Mannanase, 58 

 Mannan in yeast wall, 19, 26 

 protein complexes of, 26, 27 



