For the first time in bacterial polysaccharides, residues of D- and L-aspartic acids were identified as N-acyl substituents of 4-amino-4,6-dideoxy-D-glucose in the O-antigens of enterobacteria of the genera Providencia and Proteus.
Lipopolysaccharide, NMR, LPS, structure, Bacterial, structural, polysaccharide, O-antigen, O antigen, acidic, acidic polysaccharide, acid, phosphate, bacteria, O-specific, O-specific polysaccharide, Providencia, Proteus, Proteus mirabilis, serological, Ethanolamine phosphate, Bacterial polysaccharide, polysaccharides, component, bacterial polysaccharides, amino acid, PDF, aspartic acid, N-linked, Acids
NCBI PubMed ID: 14972025Journal NLM ID: 0376536Publisher: Nauka/Interperiodica
Correspondence: knirel@ioc.ac.ru
Institutions: Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Methods: methylation, NMR-2D, NMR, HF solvolysis, ESI-MS, Smith degradation, triflic acid solvolysis