caa a22 4500 477105106 CHVBK 20180405111551.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01574702 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01574702 Sutherland I. Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Edinburgh University, Mayfield Road, EH9 3JG, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK aut A natural terrestrial biofilm [Elektronische Daten] [I Sutherland] Material recovered from an extensive and viscous biofilm found on areas of rough hill pasture in Southern Scotland proved to consist of a thick mucilaginous deposit of polysaccharide in which species of green algae, withGleocystis spp as the dominant microorganism and lesser numbers ofOocystis spp. Cyanobacteria were also entrapped. On laboratory culture other green algal and cyanobacterial species were detected. Analysis of the native polysaccharide and of the exopolysaccharide from a mixed culture of the dominant algal species derived from the original material, revealed the major components as glucose, galactose, mannose and rhamnose. The content of uronic acids was very low. The viscosity of the polysaccharide preparations was determined and compared with bacterial biofilm material; viscosity was lost following phenol extraction indicating that the original material was probably closely associated with proteins. Society for Industrial Microbiology, 1996 green algae nationallicence cyanobacteria nationallicence polysaccharides nationallicence Journal of Industrial Microbiology Springer-Verlag 17/3-4(1996-09-01), 281-283 0169-4146 17:3-4<281 1996 17 10295 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574702 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574702 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sutherland I. Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Edinburgh University, Mayfield Road, EH9 3JG, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Industrial Microbiology Springer-Verlag 17/3-4(1996-09-01), 281-283 0169-4146 17:3-4<281 1996 17 10295 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer