title: Structural characterisation and enzymic modification of the exopolysaccharide produced by Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris B39.
abstract: Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris B39 grown on whey permeate produced an exopolysaccharide containing L-Rha, D-Gal and D-Glc in a molar ratio of 2:3:2. The polysaccharide was modified using an enzyme preparation from Aspergillus aculeatus, resulting in the release of Gal and a polymer with approximately the same hydrodynamic volume as the native polysaccharide. Linkage analysis and 1H NMR studies of both the native and modified exopolysaccharides elucidated that terminally linked Gal was released during modification and that the chemical structure of the branches within the repeating units is: beta-D-Galp-(1-->4)-beta-D-Glcp-(1-->. 2D NMR experiments (both 1H-1H and 1H-13C) revealed that exopolysaccharide B39 consists of a branched heptasaccharide repeating unit with the following structure: [structure: see text].
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: van Casteren
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dijkema
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Schols
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beldman
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Voragen
mesh_terms: D001230:Aspergillus / Q000201:enzymology; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D013294:Lactococcus lactis; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry*; D011522:Protons; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D011522:Protons; C406479:exopolysaccharide B39