Cell walls of Agromyces fucosus ssp. hippuratus VKM Ac-1352T and VKM Ac-1353 contain teichoic acids of identical structure. The polymer is of a 1.5-poly(ribitol phosphate) type. Each ribitol phosphate residue is substituted at C-4(2) by tetrasaccharide having the following structure: α-L-Rhap(1→3)-α-L-Rhap-(1→3)-β-D-GlcpNAc-(1→2)-α-L-Rhap-(1→. The teichoic acid chain is made up by 12-13 repeating units. No structurally identical polymer of the procaryotic cell wall has so far been reported.
NCBI PubMed ID: 7873688Journal NLM ID: 0376536Publisher: Nauka/Interperiodica
Institutions: Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Vorob'evy gory, Moscow, 119899 Russia