5,7-Diamino-5,7,9-trideoxynon-2-ulosonic acid: a novel sugar from a phytopathogenic Pseudomonas lipopolysaccharide

Preliminary results on the structure of a novel sugar from a lipopolysaccharide from Pseudomonas corrugata, a plant pathogenic bacterium whose several aspects of phytopathogenic mechanism are under investigation, are described. This is a 5,7-diamino-5,7,9-trideoxynon-2-ulosonic acid, isolated as an O-glycoside from the Smith degradation of the O-chain. The structure was obtained both with NMR and MS methodologies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of 3-hydroxylated non-2-ulosonic acid.