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Brown1 isolated from ‘mother of vinegar’ an organism which he designated B. xylinum because it formed a tough pellicle exhibiting the behaviour of cellulose. It is now known as Acetobacter xylinum. In more recent years, X-ray examination of the pellicle which it forms on media containing, in the several cases, glycerol and certain sugars and sugar alcohols, has shown the material to possess the same structure as vegetable cellulose (compare Hibbert and Barsha2, Tarr and Hibbert3, Barsha and Hibbert4 and Khouvine5).
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Brown, J. Chem. Soc., 49, 432 (1886).
Hibbert and Barsha, Can. J. Res., 5, 580 (1931).
Tarr and Hibbert, Can. J. Res., 4, 372 (1931).
Barsha and Hibbert, Can. J. Res., 10, 170 (1934).
Khouvine, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 198, 1144 (1933).
Hibbert and Perry, Can. J. Res., 8, 102 (1933).
Wirth and Nord, Arch. Biochem., 1, 143 (1942).
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KAUSHAL, R., WALKER, T. Formation of Cellulose by Acetobacter acetigenum. Nature 160, 572–573 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160572b0
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