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Structural and Interaction Studies of Bacterial Polysaccharides by NMR Spectroscopy

<p>An introduction to bacterial polysaccharides and the methods for structural determination are described in the first two parts of the thesis.</p><p>In a structural elucidation of bacterial polysaccharides NMR experiments are important as is component analysis. A short description of immunochemical methods such as enzyme immunoassays is included. Two NMR techniques used for interaction studies, trNOE and STD NMR, are also discussed. </p><p>The third part of the thesis discusses and summarizes the results from the included papers. The structures of the exopolysaccharides produced by two lactic acid bacteria are determined by one- and two dimensional NMR experiments. One is a heteropolysaccharide produced by <i>Streptococcus thermophilus</i> and the other a homopolysaccharide produced by <i>Propionibacterium freudenreichii</i>. The structure of an acidic polysaccharide from a marine bacterium with two serine residues in the repeating unit is also investigated. The structural and immunological relationship between two O-antigenic polysaccharides from <i>Escherichia coli</i> strain 180/C3 and O5 is discussed and investigated. Finally, interaction studies of an octasaccharide derived from the <i>Salmonella enteritidis</i> O-antigen and a bacteriophage are described which were performed with NMR experiments.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:su-284
Date January 2004
CreatorsNordmark, Eva-Lisa
PublisherStockholm University, Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm : Institutionen för organisk kemi
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral thesis, comprehensive summary, text

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