Progressive cellulase will continue to interact with a single polysaccharide strand, nonprogressive cellulase will interact once then disengage and engage another polysaccharide strand.
These highly specialized gel filtration and chromatographic media are composed of macroscopic beads synthetically derived from the polysaccharide, dextran.
One of the millets, barnyard millet, where a polysaccharide extracted from the endosperm of the millet and composed of glucose was identified as a phytoglycogen.