D- and L-aspartic acids: new non-sugar components of bacterial polysaccharides

N A Kocharova; S N Senchenkova; A N Kondakova; A I Gremyakov; G V Zatonsky; A S Shashkov; Y A Knirel; N K Kochetkov

doi:10.1023/b:biry.0000016358.14670.ad

D- and L-aspartic acids: new non-sugar components of bacterial polysaccharides

Biochemistry (Mosc). 2004 Jan;69(1):103-7. doi: 10.1023/b:biry.0000016358.14670.ad.

Authors

N A Kocharova¹, S N Senchenkova, A N Kondakova, A I Gremyakov, G V Zatonsky, A S Shashkov, Y A Knirel, N K Kochetkov

Affiliation

¹ Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia.

PMID: 14972025
DOI: 10.1023/b:biry.0000016358.14670.ad

Abstract

For the first time in bacterial polysaccharides, residues of D- and L-aspartic acids were identified as N-acyl substituents of 4-amino-4,6-dideoxy-D-glucose in the O-antigens of enterobacteria of the genera Providencia and Proteus.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aspartic Acid / analysis*
Aspartic Acid / chemistry*
Carbohydrate Sequence
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Molecular Sequence Data
Molecular Structure
O Antigens / chemistry*
O Antigens / isolation & purification
Proteus mirabilis / chemistry

Substances

O Antigens
Aspartic Acid