aN. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
bDepartment of Immunobiology of Bacteria, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Lodz, Poland
KEYWORDS: Providencia stuartii, O-antigen, Lipopolysaccharide, Polysaccharide structure
Carbohydrate Research, 2005, v. 340, pp. 775-780
DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2005.01.007
The O-polysaccharide (O-antigen) was obtained by mild acid degradation of the lipopolysaccharide of Providencia stuartii O57:H29. Studies by sugar and methylation analyses along with 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, including two-dimensional 1H,1H COSY, TOCSY, ROESY, H-detected 1H,13C HSQC, and HMBC experiments, showed that the polysaccharide contains an amide of D-galacturonic acid with L-alanine and has the following pentasaccharide repeating unit:
75% OAc L-Ala |2 |6 ->3)aLRhap(1->4)aDGlcp(1->4)aDGalpA(1->3)bDGlcpNAc(1->2)aDGalp(1-> |