Structural Studies of the Capsular Antigen from Hæmophilus influenzæ Type b.
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Danish Chemical Society in Acta Chemica Scandinavica
- Vol. 30b (3) , 276-277
- https://doi.org/10.3891/acta.chem.scand.30b-0276
Abstract
The polymer of the H. influenzae capsular antigen is composed of equimolecular parts of D-ribose, ribitol and phosphate. Dephosphorylation of the polymer by treatment with alkali and then with phosphatase produced a ribosylribitol. Methylation analysis and the optical rotation study showed the disaccharide as a 1-O-D-ribofuranosylribitol and a .beta.-D-ribofuranoside, respectively. The ribitol moiety had the D configuration. The linkage position of the phosphate to the ribitol is also characterized.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Structure of the ribitol teichoic acid from the walls of Bacillus subtilisBiochemical Journal, 1960