The tomato seeds induced to germinate release soluble sugars into the incubation medium, including a significant amount of mannose, which indicates active polysaccharide degradation.
Further studies are needed to identify the polysaccharide constituents of the plug.
Galactomannans are polysaccharides with b-1,4linked mannose as a backbone to which a number of a-1,6-linked galactose side-chains are attached.
Technical report : prevention of pneumococcal infections, including the use of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines and antibiotics prophylaxis.
We have found that the 23-valent and (previous) 14-valent 83 % polysaccharide vaccines covered 97 % and respectively of invasive isolates.
This interpretation correlates with the concept that long polysaccharide chains are present within the granules, and is supported by our negative stain data (see below).
The coverage of non-susceptible penicillin and erythromycin noninvasive isolates was 99 % and 95 % with the 23-valent polysaccharide and 7-11-valent conjugate vaccines respectively.
These produce at least 3 types of polysaccharide and protein complexes, assumed to be glycoproteins or possibly mucopolysaccharides, and several esterases.
