Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
];
infection due to Klebsiella pneumoniae [ICD11:
XN741 
]
The structure was elucidated in this paperNCBI PubMed ID: 3912042Publication DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6215(00)90412-9Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Institutions: Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Great Britain)
The O-antigen polysaccharides of Klebsiella serotype O5 and Escherichia coli serotype O8 are serologically very similar or identical. The structures of these two polysaccharides have now been re-investigated. N.m.r. spectroscopy, chromium trioxide oxidation, hydrolysis with a specific phage enzyme, and f.a.b. mass spectrometry were the principal methods used. It is concluded that the O-antigen has the following structure, in which D-Man3Me is 3-O-methyl-D-mannose and n is approximately 10. (Formula: see text) Biosynthetic studies indicate that these antigens are synthesised by addition of D-mannopyranosyl groups to the "non-reducing" end of the mannan chain, and it seems possible that addition of a 3-O-methyl-D-mannopyranosyl group involves termination.
Structure type: oligomer
Location inside paper: 5
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, O-antigen
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_114705,IEDB_130701,IEDB_136104,IEDB_137485,IEDB_140116,IEDB_142357,IEDB_143632,IEDB_144983,IEDB_144995,IEDB_152206,IEDB_164479,IEDB_2278480,IEDB_983930,SB_136,SB_196,SB_197,SB_44,SB_67,SB_72
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, methylation, FAB-MS
Comments, role: degradation product
Related record ID(s): 114536, 264536
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 1010796,
573Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G27128LG
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