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Structure of the O-specific polysaccharide from a halophilic bacterium Halomonas ventosae RU5S2EL
Ibrahim M Ibrahim1, Elena N Sigida2, Maxim S Kokoulin3
1N. G. Chernyshevsky Saratov State University, 83 Ulitsa Astrakhanskaya, Saratov, 410012, Russia; Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum, 63514, Egypt.
Abstract:
Halomonas ventosae RU5S2EL, a halophilic Gram-negative bacterium isolated from salt sediments of lake Elton (Russia), was cultivated and the lipopolysaccharide was extracted by the Westphal procedure. The O-specific polysaccharide (OPS) was obtained by mild acid hydrolysis of the lipopolysaccharide and was studied by sugar analysis along with 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, including 1H,1H COSY, TOCSY, ROESY, 1H,13C HSQC, and HMBC experiments as well as Smith degradation. The OPS was found to consist of branched pentasaccharide repeating units of the following structure.
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