The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) produced by the non-pathogenic Klebsiella strain I-714, selected for its immunomodulating activity, has been purified and almost completely detoxified in a previous study [Adam, O., Vercellone, A., Paul, F., Monsan, P.F. & Puzo, G. (1995) Anal. Biochem. 225. 321-327]. The present report concerns the structural elucidation of this CPS by several one-dimensional and two-dimensional 1H NMR and 13C NMR experiments performed on the native molecule. It was found to be a high molecular-mass branched polymer constituted by a hexasaccharide repeating unit of following structure: -4)aLRhap(1-3)bDGalp(1-2)aLRhap(1-4)bDGlcpA(1-3)[aLRhap(1-2)]aDGalp(1-. The presence of two glycosidic substitutions on the Galp residue resulted in a strong overlapping of its proton signals, preventing direct assignment of both proton and carbon resonances. However, assignment could be achieved using the two-bond and three-bond 1H-13C heteronuclear coupling observed in the 1H-13C heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation (HMBC) spectrum.
NMR, structural, capsular, polysaccharide, capsular polysaccharide, Klebsiella, elucidation, assignment, adjuvant, HMBC, two-dimensional
NCBI PubMed ID: 8917462Journal NLM ID: 0107600Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd. on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Institutions: Institut de Phannacologie et de Biologie Structurale du CNRS, Toulouse, France, BioEurope. BP 4196, Toulouse, France
Methods: methylation, NMR-2D, GC-MS, sugar analysis, GC