Structure of a glycerol teichoic acid-like O-specific polysaccharide of Proteus vulgaris O12. |
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Authors: | A V Perepelov A Torzewska A S Shashkov S N Senchenkova A Rozalski Y A Knirel |
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Institution: | N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. |
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Abstract: | A phosphorylated O-specific polysaccharide (O-antigen) was obtained by mild acid degradation of Proteus vulgaris O12 lipopolysaccharide and studied by sugar and methylation analyses, 1H-, 13C- and 31P-NMR spectroscopy, including two-dimensional COSY, TOCSY, NOESY, H-detected 1H, 13C and 1H, 31P heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence experiments. It was found that the polysaccharide consists of pentasaccharide repeating units connected via a glycerol phosphate group, and has the following structure: where FucNAc is 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxygalactose and the degree of O-acetylation at position 4 of GalNAc is approximately 25%. Immunochemical studies with P. vulgaris O12 O-antiserum suggested that the lipopolysaccharide studied shares common epitopes with the lipopolysaccharide core of P. vulgaris O8 and with the O-antigens of P. penneri strains 8 and 63. |
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