Two types of neutral O-polysaccharides were obtained by mild acid degradation of the lipopolysaccharide isolated by phenol-water extraction from the asymbiotic diazotrophic rhizobacterium Azospirillum brasilense Jm6B2. The following structure of the major O-polysaccharide was established by composition and methylation (ethylation) analyses, Smith degradation, and 1D and 2D (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy: [structure: see text] where a non-stoichiometric (~60%) 3-O-methylation of D-rhamnose is indicated by italics.
Lipopolysaccharide, O-antigen, Azospirillum brasilense, bacterial polysaccharide structure, D-Acofriose
NCBI PubMed ID: 22575749Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2012.04.006Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: room308@ibppm.sgu.ru
Institutions: Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov, Russia
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, methylation, NMR-2D, chemical analysis, GLC, Smith degradation, NMR-1D