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Plackett and Buttery1,2 extracted lipopolysaccharide from the V5 strain of M. mycoides by hot phenol3. They obtained a ‘galactan’ yielding 90 per cent D-galactose, about 4 per cent lipids, less than 2 per cent nitrogen and less than 0.1 per cent phosphorus. The galactan was not pyrogenic in rabbits and had the properties of a complex hapten.
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VILLEMOT, J., PROVOST, A. & QUEVAL, R. Endotoxin from Mycoplasma mycoides. Nature 193, 906–907 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193906a0
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