Lip
op
olysaccharides
of f
our strains
of
Edwardsiella tarda were degraded by mild acid hydr
olysis, and the released O-p
olysaccharides were is
olated by GPC and studied by sugar and methylati
on analyses al
ong with
1H and
13C NMR spectr
osc
opy, including 2D
1H,
1H COSY, TOCSY, ROESY,
1H,
13C HMBC, HSQC and HSQC-TOCSY experiments. The O-p
olysaccharide fr
om
E. tarda PCM 1153 was f
ound t
o c
ontain d-GalA, d-
GlcNAc, d-Gal and 2-amin
o-1,3-pr
opanedi
ol (Gr
oN). In the tetrasaccharide repeating unit, Gr
oN is amide-linked t
o one
of the GalA residues, and Gal is n
on-st
oichi
ometrically 2-
or 3-O-acetylated (鈭?5%at each p
ositi
on):
Three other E. tarda strains examined (PCM 1145, PCM 1151 and PCM 1158) share the following O-polysaccharide structure:
where Abe indicates 3,6-dideoxy-d-xylo-hexose (abequose). This structure resembles those of Citrobacter freundii O22 (PCM 1555) and Salmonella enterica O4. In accordance with the structural data, SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting of the lipopolysaccharides with anti-C. freundii O22 serum demonstrated that the O-antigens of the three E. tarda strains are serologically identical to each other and to the O-antigens of C. freundii O22 and S. enterica O4.