Structure of the O-polysaccharide of Escherichia coli O150 containing 2-acetamido-4-O-[(S)-1-carboxyethyl]-2-deoxy-d-glucose

Carbohydr Res. 2007 Feb 26;342(3-4):648-52. doi: 10.1016/j.carres.2006.08.017. Epub 2006 Sep 25.

Abstract

An acidic O-polysaccharide was obtained by mild acid degradation of the lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia coli O150 and studied by sugar and methylation analyses, triflic acid solvolysis, Smith degradation, (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy, including 2D ROESY, (1)H,(13)C HSQC, HMQC-TOCSY, and HMBC experiments. The polysaccharide was found to contain a regioisomer of N-acetylisomuramic acid, 2-acetamido-4-O-[(S)-1-carboxyethyl]-2-deoxy-d-glucose [d-GlcNAc4(Slac)]. The structure of its hexasaccharide repeating unit was established.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Escherichia coli / chemistry*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Muramic Acids / chemistry*
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • O Antigens / chemistry*
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization

Substances

  • Muramic Acids
  • O Antigens
  • N-acetylmuramic acid