Fig. 1: Chemical structure of fucoidans and experimental work with Planctomycetota strains isolated from Fucus spiralis.
From: Mechanisms of recalcitrant fucoidan breakdown in marine Planctomycetota
Chemical structures of the common backbone chains of Type I (a) and Type II (b) homofucans, including the target site for the fucoidan-processing enzymes. c Chemical structure of the common backbone of the galactofucan (heterofucan) found in Undaria pinnatifida22. d Workflow of the experimental work. e Growth curves and carbohydrate consumption of strains 892 and 913 in different carbon sources (i.e., fucoidan from Fucus vesiculosus and Undaria pinnatifida, laminarin, mannose and fucose). Data points at each time represent three biologically independent experiments. Doubling times (td) have been derived from optical density measurement values (OD600) during exponential phase. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
