Division of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm, Fack, S-104 05 Stockholm Sweden;Department of Immunology, The Wenner-Gren Institute, University of Stockholm, S-113 45 Stockholm Sweden
Abstract:
The structure of the O-specific side-chains of the cell-wall lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia coli O 75 has been investigated, using methylation analysis and Smith degradation as the principal methods. The O-specific side-chain was found to be composed of a tetrasaccharide repeating-unit of the following structure:
