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NMR Spectroscopy Molecular Dynamics, and Conformation of a Synthetic Octasaccharide Fragment of the O-Specific Polysaccharide of Shigella Dysenteriae Type 1

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Author(s)

B Coxon, Fahriye N. Sari, G Batta, V Pozsgay

Abstract

A synthetic octasaccharide fragment of the O-polysaccharide from Shigella dysenteriae type 1 has been studied as its methyl glycoside derivative by one-dimensional and two-dimensional homonuclear and heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy. Complete 1H and 13C NMR assignments have been generated for the octasaccharide derivative, namely methyl O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 -> 2)-O-α-D-galactopyranosyl-(1 -> 3)-O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-α-D-glucopyranosyl)-(1 -> 3)-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 -> 3)-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 -> 2)-O-α-D-galactopyranosyl-(1 -> 3)-O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-α-D-glucopyranosyl)-(1 -> 3)-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside. 13C spin-lattice relaxation times have also been measured for this derivative. An octasaccharide derivative containing one D-galactose residue with a specific 13C label at C-1 has been synthesized and used to measure interglycosidic 13C-1H coupling by the 2D J-resolved 1H NMR method. From the NMR data, three types of conformational restraints were developed; (a) 29 inter-residue, distance restraints, (b) 48 intra-residue, ring atom dihedral angle restraints, (c) one heteronuclear, inter-residue dihedral angle restraint. The use of these restraints in a restrained molecular dynamics computation with simulated annealing yielded a conformation resembling a short, irregular spiral, with methyl substituents on the exterior.
Citation
Carbohydrate Research
Volume
242
Issue
No. 1

Keywords

carbon-13 labeling, conformation, NMR Spectroscopy, octasaccharide, restrained molecular dynamics, Shigella dysenteriae type 1, simulated annealing, T-ROESY, TOCSY

Citation

Coxon, B. , Sari, F. , Batta, G. and Pozsgay, V. (2000), NMR Spectroscopy Molecular Dynamics, and Conformation of a Synthetic Octasaccharide Fragment of the O-Specific Polysaccharide of Shigella Dysenteriae Type 1, Carbohydrate Research (Accessed October 7, 2024)

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Created December 31, 1999, Updated October 12, 2021