title: Structure of the O-polysaccharide isolated from Cronobacter sakazakii 767.
abstract: The Cronobacter spp., previously known as Enterobacter sakazakii, are Gram-negative enterobacterial pathogens that can cause necrotizing enterocolitis, meningitis, and septicemia with a high mortality rate in neonates. The O-specific polysaccharide (O-PS) was isolated from Cronobacter sakazakii strain 767 and structurally characterized using (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy, including two-dimensional DQF-COSY, TOCSY, ROESY, HSQC, and HMBC experiments. Further compositional determination was undertaken using classical chemical methods followed by GLC, and GLC-MS analysis. The repeating unit of O-PS isolated from C. sakazakii 767 was a branched heptasaccharide composed of l-Rha, d-Glc, d-GlcNAc, and d-GalA, and had the structure shown below. One of the Rha residues was partially O-acetylated at C-4. C. sakazakii 767 was originally isolated from a fatal neonatal meningitic case, and the structure of its O-PS significantly differs from the O-PS structures previously described for Cronobacter spp.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, Sobieskiego 18, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland.
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Czerwicka
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Forsythe
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bychowska
authors.forename: Halina
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dziadziuszko
authors.forename: Danuta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kunikowska
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stepnowski
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kaczyński
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D041943:Infant Formula; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019081:O Antigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D019081:O Antigens