Chemical structure of a polysaccharide from Campylobacter jejuni 176.83 (serotype O:41) containing only furanose sugars

Orla M. Hanniffy, Alexander S. Shashkov, Anthony P. Moran, Martina M. Prendergast, Sof'ya N. Senchenkova, Yuriy A. Knirel, Angela V. Savage

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Abstract

A neutral polysaccharide was obtained by hot phenol-water extraction of biomass from Campylobacter jejuni 176.83 and subsequently separated from acid-liberated core oligosaccharide of lipopolysaccharide by sequential GPC on Bio-Gel P6 and TSK-40 columns. All sugar components of the trisaccharide repeating unit of the polysaccharide were found to be of the furanose ring form. The major trisaccharide contained β-L-arabinose, 6-deoxy-β-D-altro-heptose (β-D-6d-altHep) and 6-deoxy-β-L-altrose (β-L-6d-Alt), whereas in the minor trisaccharide the β-L-6d-Alt is replaced by its C-5 epimer α-D-Fuc. On the basis of 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic studies, including 2D ROESY, HMQC and HMQC-TOCSY experiments, the following structures of the repeating units were established:→2)-β-L-Araf-(1→2)-β-D-6d-altHepf-(1→2)-β-L-6d-Altf-(1→ (75%)→2)-β-L-Araf-(1→2)-β-D-6d-altHepf-(1→2)-α-D-Fucf-(1→ (25%) Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)124-132
Number of pages9
JournalCarbohydrate Research
Volume319
Issue number1-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jun 1999

Keywords

  • 6-Deoxy-D-altro-heptose
  • 6-Deoxy-L-altrose
  • Campylobacter jejuni
  • D-Fucose
  • L-Arabinose
  • NMR spectroscopy
  • O:41 Polysaccharide, structure

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