Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 7805054Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Institutions: Istituto di Chimica e Biochimica G. Ronzoni, Milan, Italy
O-Sulfation of sulfaminoheparosan SAH, a glycosaminoglucuronan with the structure →4)-β-D-GlcA(1→4)-β-D-GlcNSO3(-)-(1→, obtained by N-deacetylation and N-sulfation of the capsular polysaccharide from E. coli K5, was investigated in order to characterize the sulfation pattern eliciting heparin-like activities. SAH was reacted (as the tributylammonium salt in N,N-dimethylformamide) with pyridine-sulfur trioxide under systematically different experimental conditions. The structure of O-sulfated products (SAHS), as determined by mono- and two-dimensional 1H and 13C NMR, varied with variation of reaction parameters. Sulfation of SAH preferentially occurred at O-6 of the GlcNSO3- residues. Further sulfation occurred either at O-3 or at O-2 of the GlcA residues, depending on the experimental conditions. Products with significantly high affinity for antithrombin and antifactor Xa activity were obtained under well-defined conditions. These products contained the trisulfated aminosugar GlcNSO3-3,6SO3-, which is a marker component of the pentasaccharide sequence through which heparin binds to antithrombin.
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: 1, K5-PS
Trivial name: K5 polysaccharide, K-antigen, N-acetyl heparosan, heparosan (N-acetylheparosan), heparosan, heparosan (glycosaminoglycan GAG), K5 CPS, heparosan (K5-antigen), N-acetylheparosan
Compound class: EPS, K-antigen, CPS, polysaccharide
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_115136,IEDB_140630,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531,IEDB_153764,IEDB_423153
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G26089XS, GlycomeDB:
656
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