The O-specific polysaccharide (OPS) was isolated from the lipopolysaccharide of Aeromonas veronii strain Bs8, which is pathogenic to common carp (Cyprinus carpio), after mild acid hydrolysis followed by gel-permeation chromatography. The high-molecular-mass OPS fraction was investigated using chemical methods, mass spectrometry, and 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy techniques, including 2D homonuclear 1H,1H TOCSY, DQF COSY, NOESY, and heteronuclear 1H-detected 1H,13C HSQC, and HMBC experiments. The analysis revealed that the O-specific polysaccharide contains sugars with the galacto configuration of the ring and is composed of a disaccharide repeating unit with the following structure. (formula: see text).
LPS, O-antigen, O-specific polysaccharide, Aeromonas veronii, Fish pathogen, D-fucopyranose, D-Fucp, GalpNAc
NCBI PubMed ID: 33298315Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2020.108210Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: aturska@hektor.umcs.lublin.pl
Institutions: Department of Fish Diseases, National Veterinary Research Institute, Partyzantów 57, 24-100 Pulawy, Poland, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, methylation, GLC-MS, NMR-2D, SDS-PAGE, chemical analysis, mild acid hydrolysis, GPC