The enterobacterial common-antigen, a cyclic polysaccharide

Carbohydr Res. 1984 Oct 1;133(1):95-104. doi: 10.1016/0008-6215(84)85186-1.

Abstract

Structural studies of the enterobacterial common-antigen, using chemical methods and fast-atom-bombardment mass spectrometry, indicate that it is a cyclic polysaccharide, composed of four, five, and, to a smaller extent, six trisaccharide repeating-units. In the structure of the antigen, given below, D-Fuc4NAc stands for 4-acetamido-4,6-dideoxy-D-galactose.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Bacterial / isolation & purification*
  • Carbohydrate Conformation
  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Enterobacteriaceae / immunology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Methylation

Substances

  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • enterobacterial common antigen