Structure of the O-deacetylated glucuronoxylomannan from Cryptococcus neoformans serotype C as determined by 2D 1H NMR spectroscopy.
The primary structure of the O-deacetylated capsular glucuronoxylomannan (GXM) isolated from Cryptococcus neoformans serotype C was investigated by 2D NMR spectroscopy. Assignment of the 1H NMR chemical shifts for the polysaccharide was accomplished from the analysis of DQF-COSY, TOCSY, NOESY and/or ROESY spectra of three isolates (298, 34, and 401). These isolates contain the same polysaccharide glycosyl residues but in different proportions. The serotype C GXM consists of two repeating polysaccharide units that have the following structures: [formula: see text] It is not known if these repeating units comprise a single or two separate polymer chains. The relative amounts of the more highly branched octasaccharide 1 in the isolates studied (i.e., approximately 75% in isolate 34, 50% in isolate 298, and 25% in isolate 401) can be used to explain the serological specificity of these isolates with C. neoformans factor sera, as was previously determined by ELISA in this laboratory. The octasaccharide 1 component is the one previously postulated as the structure of the serotype C GXM although definitive placement of the beta-Xyl-(1-->4) residues had previously not been determined. The heptasaccharide 2 component is uniformly found as the repeating unit in the polysaccharide from serotype B isolates. Additionally, GXM 401 was found to contain a small amount of the hexasaccharide repeating unit usually attributed to serotype A GXM.
Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, LBCS, Atlanta 30303, USA.
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D000107:Acetylation; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D003455:Cryptococcus neoformans / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry*; D012703:Serotyping
D011134:Polysaccharides; C027478:glucuronoxylomannan