Article
Crystallization of lipopolysaccharide from a Salmonella typhimurium semi-rough (SR) mutant.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 1999
Ito H, Naito S, Arakawa Y, Sasaki K, Kato N
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella typhimurium SR-form lipopolysaccharide (LPS), consisting of a single repeating unit of the O-antigenic polysaccharide, linked to the R-core consisting of oligosaccharide that is, in turn, linked to lipid A, formed crystals whose shapes were hexagonal plates, discoids, and solid columns when precipitated by the addition of 2 volumes of 95% ethanol containing 375 mM MgCl2 and kept in 70% ethanol...
Topics
- Carbohydrate Conformation
- Crystallography, X-Ray
- Humans
- Lipopolysaccharides
- Mutation
- Salmonella typhimurium
