The O-specific polysaccharide (OPS) was isolated from the lipopolysaccharide of Aeromonas hydrophila strain K691 and studied by chemical methods and 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, including 2D 1H,1H COSY, TOCSY, NOESY, 1H-detected heteronuclear 1H,13C HSQC, and HMBC experiments. It was found that the O-specific polysaccharide was built up of pentasaccharide repeating units composed of β-GlcpNAc, 2-O-acetylated α-Rhap, and β-Quip4NAc residues. The following structure of the OPS was established: →3)-α-l-Rha2OAc-(1→3)-β-d-GlcNAc-(1→3)-α-l-Rha2OAc-(1→3)-β- d-GlcNAc-(1→2)-β-d-Qui4NAc-(1→.
LPS, O-antigen, O-specific polysaccharide, O-acetylation, 6-dideoxy-d-glucose, 4-amino-4, Aeromonas hydrophila, Fish pathogen
NCBI PubMed ID: 28088128Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2016.12.006Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: aturska@hektor.umcs.lublin.pl
Institutions: Department of Genetics and Microbiology, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland, Department of Fish Diseases, National Veterinary Research Institute, Partyzantów 57, 24-100 Pulawy, Poland
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, methylation, GLC-MS, NMR-2D, SDS-PAGE, sugar analysis, acid hydrolysis, GPC, reduction with NaBD4, N-acetylation