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XYLAN is hydrolysed in animals, plants, and by a large number of micro-organisms. Sørensen1 recently gave evidence that certain bacteria act on xylan to produce xylose-containing oligosaccharides and D-xylose. Whistler et al.2 reported that an enzyme preparation from the medium of Aspergillus foedidus hydrolysed corn-cob xylan primarily to xylobiose with no production of D-xylose. An extract of the mould mycelium was separated into two fractions : one which hydrolysed xylan and the oligosaccharides to D-xylose without producing significant amounts of oligosaccharides, and one which hydrolysed xylan to a mixture of D-xylose and oligosaccharides.
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Sørensen, H., Phys. Plantarum, 5, 183 (1952).
Whistler, R. L., and Masak, E., J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 77, 1241 (1955).
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INAOKA, M., SODA, H. Crystalline Xylanase. Nature 178, 202–203 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178202a0
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