Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden;Department of Bacteriology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-105 21 Stockholm Sweden
Abstract:
The structure of the O-antigen polysaccharide of Escherichia coli O4 has been investigated using n.m.r. spectroscopy, methylation analysis, and various specific degradations. It is concluded that the O-antigen is composed of pentasaccharide repeating-units having the following structure.
