The O-polysaccharide from the lipopolysaccharide of Providencia stuartii O44 contains L-quinovose, a 6-deoxy sugar rarely occurring in bacterial polysaccharides.

Nina A Kocharova, Olga G Ovchinnikova, Filip V Toukach, Agnieszka Torzewska, Alexander S Shashkov, Yuriy A Knirel, Antoni Rozalski

Index: Carbohydr. Res. 340(7) , 1419-23, (2005)

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Abstract

The O-polysaccharide (O-antigen) of Providencia stuartii O44:H4 (strain 3768/51) was obtained by mild acid degradation of the lipopolysaccharide and studied by sugar and methylation analyses along with (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy, including 2D (1)H,(1)H COSY, TOCSY, ROESY, and H-detected (1)H,(13)C HSQC, and HMQC-TOCSY experiments. The O-polysaccharide was found to have a branched hexasaccharide repeating unit of the following structure: [Formula: see text].