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RECENT advances in the chemistry of wool and wool textile processes have been based on the simple view that the fibre consists of peptide chains bridged by cystine and salt linkages. The differences between the constituent phases of the fibre and its cells were reserved for investigation until the significance of main structural features had been determined. In connexion with a detailed study of the reactivity of the sulphur linkage in animal fibres1, however, we have found it necessary to determine whether the intercellular phase of the fibre differs in sulphur content from the cortical and cuticular cells.
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SPEAKMAN, J., MCMAHON, P. Sulphur Content of the Intercellular Phase of the Wool Fibre. Nature 141, 118–119 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141118a0
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