title: Structure of a 2-aminoethyl phosphate-containing O-specific polysaccharide of Proteus penneri 63 from a new serogroup O68.
abstract: Lipopolysaccharide of Proteus penneri strain 63 was degraded by mild acid to give a high molecular mass O-specific polysaccharide that was isolated by gel-permeation chromatography. Sugar and methylation analyses and NMR spectroscopic studies, including two-dimensional 1H, 1H COSY, TOCSY rotating-frame NOE spectroscopy, H-detected 1H,13C and 1H,31P heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence (HMQC), and 1H, 13C HMQC-TOCSY experiments, demonstrated the following structure of the polysaccharide: where FucNAc is 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxygalactose and PEtn is 2-aminoethyl phosphate. The polysaccharide studied shares some structural features, such as the presence of D-GlcNAc6PEtn and an alpha-L-FucNAc-(1-->3)-D-GlcNAc disaccharide, with other Proteus O-specific polysaccharides. A marked cross-reactivity of P. penneri 63 O-antiserum with P. vulgaris O12 was observed and substantiated by a structural similarity of the O-specific polysaccharides of the two strains. In spite of this, the polysaccharide of P. penneri 63 has the unique structure among Proteus O-antigens, and therefore a new, separate serogroup, O68, is proposed for this strain.
authors.affiliation: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Tussian Academy of Sicences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Shashkov
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kondakova
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Senchenkova
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zych
authors.forename: F V
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Toukach
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Knirel
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sidorczyk
mesh_terms: D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D003429:Cross Reactions; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019081:O Antigens / Q000737:chemistry; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology*; D011511:Proteus / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification*; D012703:Serotyping
chemical_list: D019081:O Antigens; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial