MCDB 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chitin, Lactam, Cell Wall
17 Nov 2016
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If you think there is a discrepancy; write out your reasons, submit to professors. Go in for office hours to go over exam. Cell wall - fungi, exoskeleton - insects. Every other monomer is flipped linear. B - lactam antibiotics (penicillin) inhibit the bacterial enzyme . Has part of a protein in it and can form covalent bonds with other protiens. Cellulose & chitin - diagrams on d2l. Amino acids - ncc amino acids have nitrogen. Starch - it has glucose, energy storage polysaccharide, in storage granules. Since the question gives you the fact that if a polysaccharide is part of the structure of the cell wall - it is not soluble in water. Chitin - in the exoskeleton of insects, insects get wet and they don"t dissolve. This carbohydrate is likely to be acting as some sort of signal to other cells.
