A comparative study of the extracellular and cell-wall polysaccharides of someCandida species

Abstract

Candida bogoriensis, C.buffonii, C.diffluens, C.foliarum andC.javanica, produce an extracellular polysaccharide which contains galactose, glucose, mannose, fucose and rhamnose. These sugars were also found in cell-wall preparations of the same yeast species. The cell-wall preparations ofC.diffluens andC.foliarum included capsular material. The similarity in composition of the extracellular polysaccharides and components of the cell wall suggests that both are synthetized by the same enzymatic system. The fiveCandida species may be closely related.