Taxonomic group: bacteria / Firmicutes
(Phylum: Firmicutes)
Associated disease: pneumonia [ICD11:
CA40 
];
bacteremia [ICD11:
MA15.0 
];
meningitis [ICD11:
1D01 
];
infection due to Streptococcus pneumoniae [ICD11:
XN3PW 
]
The structure was elucidated in this paperNCBI PubMed ID: 20217879Journal NLM ID: 0370543Publisher: Weinheim: Wiley-VCH
Correspondence: richard.schmidt

uni-konstanz.de
Institutions: Fachbereich Chemie, Universitat Konstanz, Fach 725, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Streptococcus pneumoniae, lipoteichoic acid, chemical synthesis
Structure type: oligomer
Location inside paper: p.2589, scheme 6, 1a
Trivial name: lipoteichoic acid (LTA)
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_114703,IEDB_115009,IEDB_116046,IEDB_130648,IEDB_137473,IEDB_1391961,IEDB_140624,IEDB_141109,IEDB_141582,IEDB_141584,IEDB_142345,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_153207,IEDB_176772,IEDB_241118,IEDB_885822,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, chemical synthesis
Biological activity: the induction of innate immune responces
Synthetic data: chemical
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 1313
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There is only one chemically distinct structure: