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J. Biochem, 1988, Vol. 104, No. 4 671-678
© 1988 Japanese Biochemical Society

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Structure of the O-Polysaccharide Chain of Lipopolysaccharide from Pseudomonas aeruginosa IID 1001 (ATCC 27577)1

Shin-ichi Yokota, Shunji Kaya, Yoshio Araki and Eiji Ito2

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokhaido University Kito-ku, Sappporo, Hakkaido 060

2To whom correspondence should be addressed

Structural studies were carried out on an acidic O-polysaccharide released by mild acid treatment from the lipopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa IID 1001 (ATCC 27577), which is serologically related to the serotypes Habs O3, Lanyi O1, and Wokatsch O13 in other serological classifications of Pseudonwnas a The composition and data from structural analyses including 1H-NMR and13C-NMR measurements, methylation, and Smith degradation showed that the structure of the IID 1001 O-polysaccharide was coincident with that of the Habs O3 and Lanyi O1 antigens (or Wokatsch 013). However, whereas solvolysis of the O-antigen of Habs O3 as well as that of Lanyi O1 by hydrogen fluoride has been reported to yield a reducing trisaccharide, G1cNAc({alpha}1->4)GalNAcA({alpha}1->3)Bac2NAc4Nacyl (acyl represents a 3-hydroxybutanoyl group), hydrogen fluoride hydrol ysis of IID 1001 O-polysaccharide yielded a nonreducing trisaccharide with the reducing terminal bacillosamine residue linked at C-1 to the hydroxyl group of its N-acyl substituent, 3-hydroxybutanoic acid. These results, in combination with mass spectral data, led to the most likely structure for the tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the IID 1001 O-polysaccharide

in which the location of N-acyl groups on bacillosamine residues differs from that in the O-antigens of Habs O3 and Lanyi O1 (or Wokatsch O13).

1 This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.


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