Structure of the Capsular Polysaccharide of Klebsiella K-type 56

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (18) ◽  
pp. 3021-3026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuen-Min Choy ◽  
Guy G. S. Dutton

Methylation, periodate oxidation, and partial hydrolysis studies on the capsular polysaccharide of Klebsiella K-type 56 show the structure to be a repeating unit consisting of[Formula: see text]The nature of the anomeric linkages was determined by p.m.r. spectroscopy of isolated oligosaccharides. The position of the L-rhamnose side chain was defined by characterization of the di- and tetrasaccharides obtained by partial hydrolysis of the fully methylated polysaccharide.This structure represents the first capsular polysaccharide lacking uronic acid to be studied in the genus Klebsiella.

1974 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Lomax ◽  
George W. Gray ◽  
Stephen G. Wilkinson

Studies of the lipopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas alcaligenes strain BR 1/2 were extended to the polysaccharide moiety. The crude polysaccharide, obtained by mild acid hydrolysis of the lipopolysaccharide, was fractionated by gel filtration. The major fraction was the phosphorylated polysaccharide, for which the approximate proportions of residues were; glucose (2), rhamnose (0.7), heptose (2–3), galactosamine (1), alanine (1), 3-deoxy-2-octulonic acid (1), phosphorus (5–6). The heptose was l-glycero-d-manno-heptose. The minor fractions from gel filtration contained free 3-deoxy-2-octulonic acid, Pi and PPi. The purified polysaccharide was studied by periodate oxidation, methylation analysis, partial hydrolysis, and dephosphorylation. All the rhamnose and part of the glucose and heptose occur as non-reducing terminal residues. Other glucose residues are 3-substituted, and most heptose residues are esterified with condensed phosphate residues, possibly in the C-4 position. Free heptose and a heptosylglucose were isolated from a partial hydrolysate of the polysaccharide. The location of galactosamine in the polysaccharide was not established, but either the C-3 or C-4 position appears to be substituted and a linkage to alanine was indicated. In its composition, the polysaccharide from Ps. alcaligenes resembles core polysaccharides from other pseudomonads: no possible side-chain polysaccharide was detected.


1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (14) ◽  
pp. 2382-2384 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. G. S. Dutton ◽  
M. T. Yang

Methylation, periodate oxidation, and partial hydrolysis techniques have each been used to demonstrate the presence of 4,6-O-(1-carboxyethylidene)-D-mannopyranosyl units in the capsular polysaccharide of Klebsiella K-type 5. The structure of this polysaccharide differs from those known for other Klebsiella capsules by the lack of any carbohydrate side chain. A repeating unit of[Formula: see text](plus one unassigned O-acetyl group) is in accord with the experimental data.


1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1381-1388 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. A. Schwarz ◽  
T. E. Timell

An arabino-4-O-methylglucuronoxylan (10:14:76), a water-soluble galactoglucomannan (1:1:3), and an alkali-soluble galactoglucomannan (0.1:1:3) have been isolated in yields of 7, 4, and 8% from the wood of amabilis fir (Abies amabilis). The structure of the polysaccharides was established by methylation and periodate oxidation techniques. The xylan ([Formula: see text]) contained side chains of (1 → 2)-linked 4-O-methyl-α-D-glucuronic acid and (1 → 3)-linked α-L-arabinofuranose residues, both attached directly to a linear framework of (1 → 4)-linked β-D-xylose residues. The galactoglucomannans ([Formula: see text] 76 and 95) contained (1 → 6)-linked α-D-galactopyranosyl residues attached directly to a backbone of (1 → 4)-linked β-D-mannose and β-D-glucose residues. Partial hydrolysis of the two hexosans yielded 10 and 13 oligosaccharides, respectively, containing (1 → 4)-β-D-mannose, (1 → 4)-β-D-glucose, and (1 → 6)-α-D-galactopyranose residues. The molecular rotations of a series of mannooligosaccharides corresponded to a value of −54° for the specific rotation of an infinitely long mannan. It is concluded that the main hemicelluloses in amabilis fir wood are the same as those occurring in the wood of gymnosperms from other genera. The same three hemicelluloses are also present in the bark of this species.


1959 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 922-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Currie ◽  
T. E. Timell

The seed hairs of kapok (Ceibapentandra) on alkaline extraction have yielded a hemicellulose composed of xylose and uronic acid residues. Partial hydrolysis of the polysaccharide gave 2-O-(4-O-methyl-α-D-glucopyranosyluronic acid)-D-xylopyranose, 4-O-methyl-D-glucuronic acid, and, probably, galacturonic acid. Hydrolysis of the fully methylated hemicellulose yielded a mixture of 2-O- and 3-O-methyl-D-xylose, 2,3-di-O-methyl-D-xylose, 2,3,4-tri-O-methyl-D-xylose, and 2-O-(2,3,4-tri-O-methyl-α-D-glucopyranosyluronic acid)-3-O-methyl-D-xylopyranose in a molar ratio of 1.1:38:1:6. The number-average D.P. of the native and the methylated polysaccharides was 177 and 124, respectively. On the basis of this and other evidence it is suggested that the average hemicellulose molecule contains approximately 180 1,4-linked β-D-xylopyranose residues, one eighth of which carry a single terminal side chain of 4-O-methyl-D-glucuronic acid, attached through an α-glycosidic bond to C2 of the xylose. The xylan framework contains, on the average, slightly less than two branching points per macromolecule, most of them probably originating from C3. The number of acid side chains and branches is twice as large as that of the otherwise similar 4-O-methyl glucuronoxylan present in the seed hairs of milkweed floss.


1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 1826-1832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy G. S. Dutton ◽  
Mo-Tai Yang

Methylation, periodate oxidation and partial hydrolysis studies on the capsular polysaccharide, and on the carboxyl reduced polymer of Klebsiella K5 show the structure to consist of a repeating unit:[Formula: see text]The polysaccharide has a molecular weight (by gel filtration) of 9 × 105 and is the first Klebsiella capsule to be found lacking a carbohydrate side chain. The proportion of O-acetyl and pyruvate groups was determined by p.m.r. spectroscopy.


1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (18) ◽  
pp. 3015-3020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuen-Min Choy ◽  
Guy G. S. Dutton

Methylation, periodate oxidation, and partial hydrolysis studies on the capsular polysaccharide, and on the carboxyl reduced polymer, of Klebsiella K20 show the structure to consist of a repeating unit[Formula: see text]The anomeric linkages were determined by p.m.r. spectroscopy of the carboxyl reduced polysaccharide, and periodate degraded polysaccharides. The p.m.r. spectroscopy of the original polysaccharide also showed the presence in the polysaccharide of one O-acetyl group per eight sugar residues.


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 108-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm B. Perry ◽  
Lorne A. Babiuk

The antigenic polysaccharide side chain of the cell wall lipopolysaccharide of Pasteurella haemolytica (serotype 4) was investigated by methylation, periodate oxidation, partial hydrolysis, and 13C and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance analysis methods and was found to be a simple unbranched linear polymer composed of a disaccharide repeating unit having the structure —3)-α-D-Galp-(1—3)-β-D-Galf-(1—.


1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (21) ◽  
pp. 3407-3411 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. J. Gorin ◽  
J. F. T. Spencer

The two exocellular polysaccharides of Candida bogoriensis contain D-mannose, D-fucose, L-rhamnose, D-glucuronic acid, and D-galactose residues. The main heteropolymer (> 80%) has an α-D-(1 → 3)-linked mannan main-chain as shown by successive Smith degradations. Partial hydrolysis of the heteropolymers provided several methylpentose-containing oligosaccharide fragments corresponding to possible side-chain components.


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