Abstract
Hydrogen peroxide has been used to cleave the native Neisseria meningiditis polysaccharide (PS) from mega-Dalton molecular weight to a smaller size (approximately 20 kDa) depolymerized polysaccharide. The polysaccharide was examined after partial peroxide depolymerization to verify the presence of the carboxyl group at position 1 and the intactness of the internal sialic acid repeating units. The reducing end group of meningococcal polysaccharide type C was also examined after derivatization by L-tyrosine hydrazide. Partial peroxide depolymerization did not result in loss of the position 1 carboxyl group at the reducing end of the polysaccharide. In addition, no loss of structural integrity was noted for the internal sialic repeat units.
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