Structural elucidation of a novel exopolysaccharide produced by a mucoid clinical isolate of Burkholderia cepacia: Characterization of a trisubstituted glucuronic acid residue in a heptasaccharide repeating unit

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 373-383

  Cérantola, Stéphane ^a   Lemassu Jacquier, Anne ^a   Montrozier, Henri ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Acidic exopolysaccharide; Burkholderia cepacia; Cystic fibrosis; Lithium degradation; NMR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; RHAMNOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEPOLYMERIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLUCURONATES; GLUCURONIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA;

EID: 0033105797     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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