The O-polysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae O43 was studied using chemical analyses, triflic acid solvolysis and 2D NMR spectroscopy, including (1)H/(1)H COSY, TOCSY, NOESY and (1)H/(13)C gradient-selected HSQC experiments. The following structure of the tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the polysaccharide was established: →3)-β-D-Quip4NAcyl-(1→3)-α-D-GalpNAcA-(1→4)-α-D-GalpNAc-(1→3)-α-D-QuipNAc-(1→ where D-QuiNAc stands for 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-D-glucose, D-Qui4NAcyl for 4-(N-acetyl-L-allothreonyl)amino-4,6-dideoxy-D-glucose and D-GalNAcA for 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galacturonic acid.
Lipopolysaccharide, bacterial polysaccharide structure, Vibrio cholerae, 4-amino-4, O-antigen gene cluster, L-allothreonine, 6-D-dideoxy-D-glucose
NCBI PubMed ID: 21232736Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2010.12.009Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: perepel@ioc.ac.ru
Institutions: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, NMR-2D, DNA sequencing, sugar analysis, GLC, triflic acid solvolysis, delipidation, function analysis of gene clusters