Taxonomic group: fungi / Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Basidiomycota)
Organ / tissue: capsuleAssociated disease: infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans [ICD11:
XN3EH 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 12927865Publication DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(03)00391-2Journal NLM ID: 9413298Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: fzkong

mail.rcees.ac.cn
Institutions: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Two hexasaccharides, β-D-Xylp-(1→2)-α-D-Manp-(1→3)-[β-D-Xylp-(1→2)-]α-D-Manp-(1→3)-[β-D-GlcpA-(1→2)-]α-D-Manp and β-D-GlcpA-(1→2)-α-D-Manp-(1→3)-[β-D-Xylp-(1→2)-]α-D-Manp-(1→3)-[β-D-Xylp-(1→2)-]α-D-Manp, the repeating unit of the exopolysaccharide from Cryptococcus neoformans serovar A, were synthesized as their methyl glycosides in a regio- and stereoselective manner
synthesis, exopolysaccharide, Cryptococcus neoformans A
Structure type: suggested polymer biological repeating unit
Location inside paper: Scheme 1, D
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: chemical synthesis
Related record ID(s): 49285, 49286, 49287
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 40410Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G53406VG
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There is only one chemically distinct structure: