[Antigenic bacterial polysaccharides. 29. The structure of the polysaccharide chain of Pseudomonas holci 8300 (serogroup I) lipopolysaccharide].

The Pseudomonas holci 8300 lipopolysaccharide has an O-specific polysaccharide chain, containing L-rhamnose and 3-acetamido-3-deoxy-D-fucose residues in the ratio 4:1. On the basis of methylation, Smith degradation, and 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy data, it was concluded that the polysaccharide is built up of pentasaccharide units of A and B types in the ratio approximately 2.5:1. In some stretches of the polysaccharide, minor B units form rather long chains, and in the others they alternate with predominant A units. (formula; see text)