lichenin

By this process the lichenin is dissolved and on cooling separates as a colorless jelly.

This enzyme acts on lichenin and cereal beta-D-glucans.

Chemically, lichenin consists of repeating glucose units linked by β-1,3 and β-1,4 glycosidic bonds.

Substrates include laminarin, lichenin and cereal D-glucans.

It contains about 70% of lichenin or lichen-starch, a body isomeric with common starch, but wanting any appearance of structure.

A unique adaptation among mammals, and they are the only animals except from some gastropods where the enzyme lichenase, which breaks down lichenin to glucose, have been found.

In his 1960 novel Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham gives the name Lichenin to a biochemical extract of lichen used to extend life expectancy beyond 300 years.

Chapter Thirty-One THE DOOR WAS a little way open, the inside of the gray building, its walls splashed with a sickly lichenin almost total darkness.

Other researched fungal isolates include, integrasone, ergosterol peroxide, enniatins, oudenone, velleral, peptaibols, kojic acid, beauvericin, pullulan, lichenin, gliotoxin, and asperlicin.

Nodobryoria is similar in appearance to Bryoria, but is differentiated because it does not contain the polysaccharide lichenin (which is present in high quantities in Bryoria), and it has a unique cortex composed of interlocking cells that look like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle when viewed under a light microscope.