The O-polysaccharide (O-antigen) of Escherichia coli O131 was studied by sugar analysis along with 1D and 2D 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. The following structure of the linear tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the polysaccharide was established: →8)-α-Neup5Ac-(2→6)-β-D-Galp-(1→6)-β-D-Galp-(1→3)-β-D-GalpNAc-(1→ The gene functions were tentatively assigned by comparison with sequences in the available databases and found to be in agreement with the E. coli O131-antigen structure.
Lipopolysaccharide, biosynthesis, Escherichia coli, gene cluster, bacterial polysaccharide structure, N-acetylneuraminic acid, O-antigen gene cluster, O-Polysaccharide structure
NCBI PubMed ID: 27863302Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2016.11.003Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: perepel@ioc.ac.ru
Institutions: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, NMR-2D, sugar analysis, GLC, alkaline degradation, NMR-1D, GPC, mild acid degradation