Ministry of Supply

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Natural occurrence of a new aldoheptose sugar.

Abstract: AT the present time aldoheptose sugars are known to occur naturally only in bacterial polysaccharides. The first of these 7-carbon sugars was recorded by Jesiatis and Goebel1 in a Shigella sonnei product, and during the past few years it has become increasingly clear that aldose sugars of this series are common constituents of bacterial polysaccharides2. Only in three instances have aldoheptoses been isolated and identified; the aldoheptose components of both Shigella flexneri and Escherichia coli products were shown by Slein and Schnell3 and Weidel4 to be L-glycero-D-mannoheptose and in a Chromobacterium violaceum (BN) polysaccharide MacLennan and Davies5 identified D-glycero-D-galactoheptose. In many other polysaccharides the aldoheptose constituent could not be distinguished chromatographically from L-glycero-D-mannoheptose (or its optical enantiomorph D-glycero-L-mannoheptose)6.