The lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus 291, when grown in skimmed milk, produced 80 mg/L exopolysaccharide with an average molecular mass of 1.4 x 10(3) kDa. Monosaccharide analysis, methylation analysis, MS, and 1D/2D NMR (1H and 13C) studies performed on the native polysaccharide, and on oligosaccharides obtained from a mild acid hydrolysate of the native polysaccharide, showed the polysaccharide to consist of branched pentasaccharide repeating units with the following structure: [structure: see text].
structural analysis, exopolysaccharide, Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaicus
NCBI PubMed ID: 11322732Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: kame@boc.chem.uu.nl
Institutions: Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry, Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Methods: NMR-2D, methylation, NMR, sugar analysis, acid hydrolysis, MS