The lipopolysaccharide of escherichia coli C- studies on the anomeric configurations of the hexoses in the R1 core.

Lipopolysaccharide from E, coli C as well as lipopolysaccharides from submutants of E. coli with incomplete core structures in their lipopolysaccharides were isolated and quantitatively analyzed. Core oligosaccharides were isolated from lipopolysaccharides by acetic acid degradation and were purified by gel chromatography. The difference in molecular rotations of the core oligosaccharides from E. coli C and 6 submutants thereof with incomplete core structure were correlated to the differences in sugar compositions. The anomeric configurations have been deducted from the high or low contribution of each individual sugar to the molecular rotation of the core oligosaccharide from E. coli C. The primary structure of the hexose region of the lipopolysaccharide from E. coli C is primary structure of the hexose region of the lipopolysaccharide from E. coli C is, see formula in text. The anomeric configurations of glucoses I, II, and III were confirmed by precipitation reactions of alkali treated lipopolysaccharides from E. coli C, C23. 1, and C21 with Concanavalin A. The alpha-anomeric configurations of both the galactoses were confirmed by degradation studies with alpha-galactosidase (E.C.3.2.1.22) from green coffee beans with the isolated and purified core oligosaccharide from E. coli C71.