Taxonomic group: fungi / Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Basidiomycota)
Associated disease: infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans [ICD11:
XN3EH 
]
The structure was elucidated in this paperJournal NLM ID: 9421292WWW link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC121351/Publisher: Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology
Correspondence: cherniak
gsu.edu
Institutions: Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Biological and Chemical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The complete assignment of the proton chemical shifts obtained by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of de-O-acetylated glucuronoxylomannans (GXMs) from Cryptococcus neoformans permitted the high-resolution determination of the total structure of any GXM. Six structural motifs based on an α-(1→3)-mannotriose substituted with variable quantities of 2-O-β- and 4-O-β-xylopyranosyl and 2-O-β-glucopyranosyluronic acid were identified. The chemical shifts of only the anomeric protons of the mannosyl residues served as structure reporter groups (SRG) for the identification and quantitation of the six triads present in any GXM. The assigned protons for the mannosyl residues resonated at clearly distinguishable positions in the spectrum and supplied all the information essential for the assignment of the complete GXM structure. This technique for assigning structure is referred to as the SRG concept. The SRG concept was used to analyze the distribution of the six mannosyl triads of GXMs obtained from 106 isolates of C. neoformans. The six mannosyl triads occurred singularly or in combination with one or more of the other triads. The identification and quantitation of the SRG were simplified by using a computer-simulated artificial neural network (ANN) to automatically analyze the SRG region of the one-dimensional proton NMR spectra. The occurrence and relative distribution of the six mannosyl triads were used to chemotype C. neoformans on the basis of subtle variations in GXM structure determined by analysis of the SRG region of the proton NMR spectrum by the ANN. The data for the distribution of the six SRGs from GXMs of 106 isolates of C. neoformans yielded eight chemotypes, Chem1 through Chem8.
Structure type: suggested polymer biological repeating unit
Location inside paper: fig. 2, SRG M1
Trivial name: glucuronoxylomannan (GXM)
Compound class: CPS, EPS, O-polysaccharide, O-antigen, cell wall polysaccharide, polysaccharide, glucuronoxylomannan, capsule polysaccharide
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_114701,IEDB_115136,IEDB_115576,IEDB_130701,IEDB_140116,IEDB_140630,IEDB_144983,IEDB_145668,IEDB_152206,IEDB_164174,IEDB_167188,IEDB_174332,IEDB_423153,IEDB_76933,IEDB_983930,SB_197,SB_44,SB_67,SB_72
Methods: 1H NMR, artificial neural network
Related record ID(s): 40733, 40735, 40736, 40737, 40738, 43502, 43806, 44119, 44282, 48779, 48781, 50826
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 40410Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G53406VG
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There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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(later renamed to: Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans)