Percentage of chitosaccharides liberated by incubation of the cell wall with purified glycoside hydrolasesa.

aData are ratios of liberated chitosaccharides to the total amount of chitosaccharides present in the starting cell wall material, and are mean percentages±S.E. of 3 independent experiments. Means for each treatment followed by a different letter are significantly different from each other (P0.05). Enzymes were purified as described in Materials and Methods, except the β-1,4-endoglucanase from Megazyme which was used without further purification.