title: Chemical structures of the core regions of Campylobacter jejuni serotypes O:1, O:4, O:23, and O:36 lipopolysaccharides.
abstract: Complete structures, including the location of N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) residues, were assigned for the core regions of Campylobacter jejuni serotypes O:1, O:4, and O:23 and O:36 lipopolysaccharides (LPS). In continuation of earlier studies, structure determinations of liberated oligosaccharides and, where necessary, of intact LPS, were by 1H-NMR spectroscopy, Smith degradation, chromium trioxide and enzymic degradations, in conjunction with methylation studies supported by fast-atom-bombardment mass spectrometry and linkage analyses by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. It was concluded on the basis of the following structures, in which each was linked 1-->5 to a terminal 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid residue, that the core regions with qualitatively similar sugar compositions showed serotypic differences in one or more of their sequences, linkage types, and anomeric configurations: [formula: see text] [corrected]. The outer regions of each structure carry Neu5Ac residues linked 2-->3 to available beta-D-Galp residues and show striking similarities with various glycosphingolipids of the ganglioside family. However, Neu5Ac epitopes are not apparently involved in determining serospecificity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: G O
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Aspinall
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: McDonald
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Raju
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Moran
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Penner
mesh_terms: D016123:Campylobacter jejuni / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid; D009439:Neuraminidase / Q000494:pharmacology; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry; D012703:Serotyping; D012794:Sialic Acids / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D012794:Sialic Acids; D009439:Neuraminidase; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid