The specific capsular polysaccharide produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae type 20 is composed of D-glucose (three parts), D-galactose (two parts), 2-acetarnido-2-deoxy-D-glucose (one part), phosphate (one part), and O-acetyl (approximately two parts). Methylation, periodate oxidation, optical rotation, nuclear magnetic resonance, partial and enzymic hydrolyses, and chromatographic studies showed that the polysaccharide is a high molecular weight polymer of partially O-acetylated hexasaccharide repeating units linked by monophosphate, having the structure indicated below:[Formula: see text]
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Richards et al. (1983) studied this question.