title: Chemical and immunochemical studies of the O-antigen from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O158 lipopolysaccharide.
abstract: The O-specific polysaccharide isolated from Escherichia coli O158 smooth lipopolysaccharide contains L-rhamnose, D-glucose and 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactose in the molar ratios 1:2:2. Studies on composition, methylation analysis and specific degradations together with a 1H and 13C NMR spectral study established that the O-antigen is built up from a pentasaccharide repeating unit having the following structure: [formula: see text] The most effective inhibitory part of the oligosaccharide from E. coli O158 lipopolysaccharide has been serologically characterized by an ELISA-inhibition study using different sugars. The results showed that methyl alpha- and beta-D-GalpNAc are the most effective inhibitors among the monosaccharides tested, while the main antibody specificity lies on the main-chain trisaccharide repeating unit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta, India.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Basu
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019081:O Antigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D019081:O Antigens