... of note that the structure of the LPS O-antigen of F. columnare differs structurally from the LPS O-antigen of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilium [21],which is a linear polymer of ... However, the nature of the adhesinsinvolved have not been identified, but possible candidates areLPS, capsule, fimbriae or other appendages of the bacterium,a hypothesis requiring further investigation.It ... chemical shift assignments in the 1H-NMR and13C-NMR spectra and the characterization of the glycosecomponents in the O-PS were determined from the appli-cation of COSY, TOCSY, NOESY and1H,13C-HSQC...