Conformational stabilization of the altruronic acid residue in the O-specific polysaccharide of Shigella sonnei/Plesiomonas shigelloides

Carbohydr Res. 1997 Dec;305(1):93-9. doi: 10.1016/s0008-6215(97)00197-3.

Abstract

Complete assignments for the 1H- and the 13C-NMR spectra of the O-specific polysaccharide of S. sonnei/Plesiomonas shigelloides are reported. Evidence is presented that in this polysaccharide both pyranose residues exist preferentially in the 4C1 chair conformation and that the polysaccharide exists in the zwitterion form.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbohydrate Conformation
  • Carbon Isotopes
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods
  • Molecular Structure
  • Plesiomonas / chemistry*
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial / chemistry*
  • Protons
  • Shigella sonnei / chemistry*
  • Uronic Acids / chemistry*

Substances

  • Carbon Isotopes
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial
  • Protons
  • Uronic Acids
  • altruronic acid