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INDEX 



Peptides, 22, 32, 37, 41 

 Phaeodactylum, 20 

 Phenol-insoluble fraction of wall, 



49 

 Phosphoenolpyiuvate, 66 

 Phy corny ces blakesleeanus, 8 

 Platymonas subcordiformis, 20 

 Polyols, 44 



Polysaccharides, 19, 25, 30, 44 

 Propionibacteria, 31, 43 

 Proteus vulgaris, 3 

 Protoplasts, formation in presence 

 of penicillin, 73 



formation of, 5 



membrane, 71 

 Pseudomorias aeruginosa, 49 



Reducing substances, 29 

 Reduction with borohydride, 60 

 Rhamnose, 42, 44 

 Rhizidiomyces sp., 19 

 Rhizopus stolonifer, 20 

 Rhodospirilium rubrum, 8, 14, 49, 



51 

 Ribitol, glucosaminide of, 46 



phosphate polymers, 44 



teichoic acid, 45, 46 

 Ribonucleic acid, 82 

 Ribosomes, 5 



Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 14, 20, 



25,27 

 Salmonella gallinarum, 49 

 Salmonella pullorum, 49 

 Sarcina flava, 32 

 Sarcina lutea, 15, 32, 59 

 Sodium dodecyl sulphate, 53 

 Sonic oscillation, 18 

 Spirillum serpens, 8, 52 

 Spirillum sp., 8 

 Sporangiophores, 8 



Sporosarcina ureae, 32 

 Staphylococcus alb us, 32, 45 

 Staphylococcus aureus, 32, 45 

 Staphylococcus citreus, 32, 45 

 Staphylococcus saprophyticus, 32 

 Streptococcus faecalis, 19, 32, 45, 



48 

 Streptococcus group A, 44, 76 

 Streptomyces, amidase, 63 



cell-walls, 31,43 



Fl enzyme, 60 

 Sugars, 43 



Teichoic acid, O-alanyl groups of, 

 45 



discovery of, 30, 44 



distribution in cell walls, 45 



extraction of, 45 



glycerol, 47 



products of acid hydrolysis, 46 



ribitol, 47 



structure of, 47 

 Tetrasaccharide, 60, 62 

 Transglycosylation, 65, 81 

 Tricophyton mentagrophytes, 20 



Uridine nucleotides, effect of anti- 

 biotics on accimiulation of, 64 

 enzymic synthesis of, 79 

 from Escherichia coli, 76 

 from Staphylococcus aureus, 76 

 from yeasts, 65 

 in wall biosynthesis, 82, 84 

 structure of, 72 



Uronic acids, 20 



Vibrio metchnikovi, 49, 73 

 X-ray data, chitin structure, 2 

 Yeasts, walls from, 5, 14 



