Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
The structure was elucidated in this paperNCBI PubMed ID: 7518740Publication DOI: 10.1016/0008-6215(94)84089-xJournal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Institutions: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rhodes University, South Africa
The primary structure of the acidic capsular antigen of Escherichia coli O8:K50:H- was shown by glycose analysis, methylation analysis, and one- and two-dimensional 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy to be composed of repeating linear tetrasaccharide units having the structure: (formula: see text).
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, K-antigen, O-antigen
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_137340,IEDB_137485,IEDB_141807,IEDB_144983,IEDB_149549,IEDB_151531,IEDB_152206,IEDB_225177,IEDB_885823,IEDB_983930,SB_44,SB_72
Comments, role: published polymerization frame was shifted for conformity with other records.
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562Reference(s) to other database(s): GlycomeDB:
3523
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There is only one chemically distinct structure: