On mild acid degradation of the lipopolysaccharide of the marine microorganism Pseudoalteromonas nigrifaciens KMM 161 an O-specific polysaccharide containing D-galactose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, 3,6-dideoxy-3-(4-hydroxybutyramido)-D-galactose, and 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-L-guluronic acid residues was obtained. From the results of Smith degradation, O-deacetylation of the polysaccharide, and NMR spectroscopy the following structure of the tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the O-specific polysaccharide was established [figure]. It should be noted that the same structure occurs in the antigenic polysaccharide of Pseudoalteromonas nigrifaciens KMM 158 described earlier as Alteromonas macleodii 2MM6
structure, strain, polysaccharide, O-specific, O-specific polysaccharide, Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Alteromonas macleodii, Pseudoalteromonas nigrifaciens, 4-hydroxybutanoic acid
NCBI PubMed ID: 12126475Journal NLM ID: 0376536Publisher: Nauka/Interperiodica
Correspondence: elnaz@piboc.dvo.ru
Institutions: Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 100-letiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok, 690022 Russia
Methods: partial acid hydrolysis, NMR, de-O-acetylation, methanolysis