The O-specific polysaccharide obtained by mild-acid degradation of lipopolysaccharide of Aeromonas bestiarum P1S was studied by sugar and methylation analyses along with (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy. The sequence of the sugar residues was determined using (1)H,(1)H NOESY and (1)H,(13)C HMBC experiments. The O-specific polysaccharide was found to be a high-molecular-mass polysaccharide composed of tetrasaccharide repeating units of the structure Since small amounts of a terminal Quip3N residue were identified in methylation analysis, it was assumed that the elucidated structure also represented the biological repeating unit of the O-specific polysaccharide.
Lipopolysaccharide, O-specific polysaccharide, 3-hydroxybutyric acid, Aeromonas bestiarum
NCBI PubMed ID: 21377659Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2011.02.003Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: aturska@hektor.umcs.lublin.pl
Institutions: Department of Genetics and Microbiology, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, methylation, GLC-MS, NMR-2D, sugar analysis, mild acid hydrolysis, ESI-ICR-MS, NMR-1D, SDS-Tricine-PAGE