Structure of an exocellular polysaccharide produced by Streptococcus thermophilus |
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| Authors: | T Doco J M Wieruszeski B Fournet D Carcano P Ramos A Loones |
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| Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique de l'Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille Flandres-Artois, Unité Associée au C.N.R.S. No 217, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. |
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| Abstract: | Streptococcus thermophilus strains grown on skimmed milk produced a viscosifying, exocellular, and water-soluble polysaccharide which contains D-glucose, D-galactose, and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine in the ratio of 1:2:1. Methylation analysis identified the glycosidic linkages in the tetrasaccharidic repeating-unit, and Smith degradation and nitrous deamination after N-deacetylation gave the sequence of monosaccharides in the repeating-unit. The anomeric configurations of the sugar residues were determined by oxidation of the peracetylated polysaccharide with chromium trioxide and by 1H- and 13C-n.m.r. spectroscopy. The following structure was assigned to the repeating unit of the polysaccharide,----3)-beta-D-Galp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Galp-(1----6)]-beta- D- Glcp-(1----3)-alpha-D-GalpNAc-(1----. |
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