The O-specific polymer from a strain of Xanthomonas maltophilia O19 contains D-glucose, L-rhamnose, and D-fucose. By means of chemical degradations and NMR studies, the repeating unit of the polymer was determined to be a branched tetrasaccharide of the structure shown. [formula: see text]
NCBI PubMed ID: 7693347Publication DOI: 10.1016/0008-6215(93)84257-7Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Institutions: School of Chemistry, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR