The structure of the O-antigen polysaccharide of the lipopolysaccharide from the enteroinvasive Escherichia coli O136 has been elucidated. The composition of the repeating unit was established by sugar and methylation analysis together with 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. Two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) and heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation experiments were used to deduce the sequence. The absolute configuration for the nonulosonic acid (NonA) could be determined using spin-spin coupling constants, 13C chemical shifts and NOESY. The anomeric configuration of the NonA was determined via vicinal and geminal 13C,1H coupling constants. The structure of the repeating unit of the polysaccharide from E. coli O136 is as follows, in which β-NonpA is 5,7-diacetamido-3,5,7, 9-tetradeoxy-Lglycero-β-Lmanno-nonulosonic acid: -4)-β-NonpA-(2-4)-β-D-Galp-(1-4)-β-D-GlcpNAc-(1-
Lipopolysaccharide, NMR, LPS, structure, strain, structural, polysaccharide, O-antigen, Escherichia, Escherichia coli, determination, O-antigenic, O-antigenic polysaccharide, nonulosonic acid, elucidation, Structure determination, Enteroaggregative, Enteroinvasive
NCBI PubMed ID: 10469128Journal NLM ID: 0107600Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd. on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Correspondence: gw+AEA-oragan.su.se
Institutions: Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden, Karolinska Institute, Department of Immunology, Microbiology, Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Division of Clinical and Oral Bacteriology, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, NMR-2D, methylation, NMR