title: Structural studies of a cell wall polysaccharide of Trichosporon asahii containing antigen II.
abstract: The structure of a cell-wall polysaccharide containing antigen II from Trichosporon asahii was investigated. A purified glucuronoxylomannan (GXM) antigen was found to contain O-acetyl groups that contribute to the serological reactivity. The structure of GXM was analyzed by partial acid hydrolysis, methylation analysis, controlled Smith degradation, NMR studies, and fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis. GXM has an alpha-(1-->3)-D-mannan backbone with a beta-D-glucopyranosyluronic acid residue bound to O-2 of a mannopyranosyl residue and the same number of beta-D-xylopyranosyl residues as mannose. Side chains of beta-D-xylopyranosyl-D-xylopyranose, forming a nonreducing terminus, and beta-D-xylopyranosyl residues were attached to O-2, O-4, and O-6 of the mannose residues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan. ichikawa-myk@umin.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nishikawa
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shinoda
mesh_terms: D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000737:chemistry*; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000737:chemistry*; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry*; D014250:Trichosporon / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000954:Antigens, Surface; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial