Perepelov AV, Wang Q, Shashkov AS, Wen L, Wang L, Knirel YA Structure and genetics of the O-antigen of Escherichia coli O158 Carbohydrate Research346(14) (2011)
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The structure was elucidated in this paper NCBI PubMed ID:21861990 Publication DOI:10.1016/j.carres.2011.07.021 Journal NLM ID:0043535 Publisher: Elsevier Correspondence: perepelioc.ac.ru Institutions: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
A structure of the O-polysaccharide (O-antigen) of Escherichia coli O158 has been reported (Datta, A. K.; Basu, S.; Roy, N. Carbohydr. Res.1999, 322, 219-227). In this work, we reinvestigated the O158 polysaccharide using sugar analyses, Smith degradation, and (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy and established the following structure, which is at variance with the structure established earlier: [see formula in text]. This structure is in agreement with the predicted functions of genes found in the O-antigen gene cluster of E. coli O158.