Anna M. Shpirt , Zakhar V. Serpokrylov , Andrei V. Perepelov , Andrei S. Dmitrenok , Mikhail M. Shneider , Anastasiya V. Popova , Philip V. Toukach , Yuriy A. Knirel
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Abstract
Structure of the Acinetobacter baumannii MAR20-4513 (K104) capsular polysaccharide (CPS) was established using Smith degradation, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, including two-dimensional homonuclear 1Н,1Н COSY, TOCSY, ROESY and heteronuclear 1Н,13C HSQC and HMBC experiments, and modeling. The K104 CPS is composed of a branched pentasaccharide K unit containing two d-Glcp residues, and one residue each of d-GalpNAc, d-GlcpNAc and d-Galp. The following structure of the pentasaccharide repeating unit of the CPS was established.
Functions of genes in the K locus of A. baumannii K104 were assigned by a comparison with sequences in the available databases and found to be in agreement with the CPS structure.
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Carbohydrate Research publishes reports of original research in the following areas of carbohydrate science: action of enzymes, analytical chemistry, biochemistry (biosynthesis, degradation, structural and functional biochemistry, conformation, molecular recognition, enzyme mechanisms, carbohydrate-processing enzymes, including glycosidases and glycosyltransferases), chemical synthesis, isolation of natural products, physicochemical studies, reactions and their mechanisms, the study of structures and stereochemistry, and technological aspects.
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