Structural studies of the teichoic acids from Bacillus licheniformis

✍ Scribed by Dick Schipper

• Book ID: 102993019
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 440 KB
• Volume: 279
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-6215
• DOI: 10.1016/0008-6215(95)00272-3

✦ Synopsis

Three teichoic acids have been isolated from Bacillus licheniformis. Their structures were found to be 1,3 poly(glycerolphosphate), -->3)-alpha-D-Gal p-(1-->1)-L-glycerol- (3-->phosphate, and -->3)-[beta-D-Glc p-(1-->2)]-alpha-D-Gal p-(1-->1)-L-glycerol- (3-->phosphate. Without separating the individual teichoic acids, and despite their high molecular weight, these polysaccharides could be identified by modern NMR techniques alone.