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On mild acid degradation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa O:3a,b and O:3a,d lipopolysaccharides O-specific polysaccharides were isolated. Both polysaccharides were found to contain 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-D-galactose, identified as fucosamine hydrochloride formed after hydrolysis with a very low yield. The other two components of the trisaccharide repeating unit, 2,3-diacetamido-2,3-dideoxy-D-mannuronic acid and 2,3-(1-acetyl-2-methyl-2-imidazolino-5,4)-2,3-dideoxy-D-mannuronic acid, were identified without isolation in their free state directly in the course of structural investigation of the polysaccharides. Both these monosaccharides have never before been found in nature. Solvolysis of either O:3a,b or O:3a,d polysaccharides with liquid hydrogen fluoride resulted in the formation of the same trisaccharide, N-acetylfucosamine residue being the reducing end. The structure of this trisaccharide, which is the repeating unit of both polysaccharides, was deduced from the results of successive chemical modifications and 13C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectra recorded for every oligosaccharide formed. As a result, the acidic diaminosugars were converted into 2,3-diacetamido-2,3-dideoxy-D-mannose indistinguishable from authentic sample. The O-specific polysaccharides O:3a,b and O:3a,d differed in the configuration of the glycosidic bond of N-acetylfucosamine residue only and had the following structures: leads to 4)DManImU(beta 1 leads to 4)DMan(NAc)2U (beta 1 leads to 3)DFucNAc(beta 1- leads to 4)DManImU(beta 1 leads to 4)DMan(NAc)2U (beta 1 leads to 3)DFucNAc(alpha 1- where DManImU = 2.3-(1-acetyl-2-methyl-2-imidazolino-5,4)-2, 3-dideoxy-D-mannuronic acid, DMan(NAc)2U = 2,3-diacetamido-2,3-dideoxy-D-mannuronic acid, DFucNAc = 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-D-galactose. The structures established were in agreement with optical rotations and assignments of all the signals in the 13C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of the polysaccharides.
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