Question

few lines about pythium aphanidermatum(chromista group microbe)

Answer 1

The wall of the chromistan oomycete Pythium aphanidermatum(Blaschek et al., 1992) consists of 18% cellulose and 82% (1,3;1,6)-β-glucan. Of the non-cellulosic glucan 33% is extractable with water at 121°C and is highly branched with 6% (1,6)-linkages. Dilute trifluoroacetic acid treatment of the walls released ∼50% of the non-cellulosic glucan which was highly branched, containing 14% (1,6)-linkages and 8% (1,4)-linkages. The extent, if any, of covalent interlinkage between the various glucans in the wall remains to be determined.