Novel teichulosonic acid from cell walls of some representatives of the genus Kribbella.

Cell walls of each of five bacterial strains belonging to the genus Kribbella (family Nocardioidaceae, order Actinomycetales) contain a neutral polysaccharide (mannan) and teichulosonic acid of novel structure in different proportions. The novel teichulosonic acid found in strains VKM Ac-2500, VKM Ас-2568, VKM Ас-2572, and VKM Ас-2575 is a heteropolymer with an irregular structure where fragments I (predominant) alternate with fragments II (minor): The teichulosonic acid from Kribbella sp. VKM Ac-2527 has in general a structure similar to that above with the exception that the Pse residue is randomly glycosylated at O-4 with β-l-Rhap (along with α-d-Galp3OMe or α-d-Galp2,3OMe). The strain VKM Ac-2572 contained additionally teichuronic acid with the disaccharide repeating unit consisted of aminomannuronic acid and 2,3-diacetamido-2,3-dideoxy-α-glucopyranose. The mannan, a polysaccharide common to all of the strains, is built of (1→6)-linked α-d-mannopyranose substituted with α-d-mannopyranose at O-2. The structures of all the glycopolymers were established by a combination of chemical and NMR spectroscopic methods.