Apparent extracellular glycoprotein turnover product from Candida albicans.

Low molecular weight material was isolated from the culture medium of three strains of Candida albicans. This material was produced from exponentially growing cultures and it appeared from chemical analysis to represent the carbohydrate portion of cell surface glycoproteins. The material contained a few residual amino acids which were interpreted to represent the attachment points of carbohydrate to protein and the remanents protease cleavage sites. Some of this material could be generated artificially by treating intact cells with papain.