PMID: 4902692Dec 1, 1969Paper

Structural analysis of colanic acid from Escherichia coli by using methylation and base-catalysed fragmentation. Comparison with polysaccharides from other bacterial sources

The Biochemical Journal
C J LawsonJ F Wilkinson

Abstract

Essentially the same methanolysis products were obtained after methylation of the slime and capsular polysaccharides from Escherichia coli K12 (S53 and S53C sub-strains) and the slime polysaccharides from E. coli K12 (S61), Aerobacter cloacae N.C.T.C. 5290 and Salmonella typhimurium SL1543. These were the methyl glycosides of 2-O-methyl-l-fucose, 2,3-di-O-methyl-l-fucose, 2,3-di-O-methyl-d-glucuronic acid methyl ester, 2,4,6-tri-O-methyl-d-glucose, 2,4,6-tri-O-methyl-d-galactose and the pyruvic acid ketal, 4,6-O-(1'-methoxycarbonylethylidene)-2,3-O-methyl-d-galactose. All were identified as crystalline derivatives from an E. coli polysaccharide. The structure of the ketal was proved by proton-magnetic-resonance and mass spectrometry, and by cleavage to pyruvic acid and 2,3-di-O-methyl-d-galactose. All these polysaccharides are therefore regarded as variants on the same fundamental structure for which the name colanic acid is adopted. Although containing the same sugar residues, quite different methanolysis products were obtained after methylation of the extracellular polysaccharide from Klebsiella aerogenes (1.2 strain). The hydroxypropyl ester of E. coli polysaccharide, when treated with base under anhydrous conditions, underw...Continue Reading

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