Structural characterisation of the core oligosaccharides isolated from the lipooligosaccharide fraction of Agrobacterium tumefaciens A1.
Three different oligosaccharide structures from the lipooligosaccharide fraction of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A1 were determined by means of chemical and spectrometrical methods. The peculiar feature of this oligosaccharide family consisted of its unusual length, that was very close to the that minimal requested for the external membrane functionality as exemplified from oligosaccharide 3, where the inner core is glycosylated from only one sugar moiety onwards.
De Castro
Cristina
C
Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Naples, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy. decastro@unina.it
Carannante
Anna
A
Lanzetta
Rosa
R
Lindner
Buko
B
Nunziata
Rosa
R
Parrilli
Michelangelo
M
Holst
Otto
O
D016960:Agrobacterium tumefaciens; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification
D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D009844:Oligosaccharides; C023023:lipid-linked oligosaccharides