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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Trivial name: lipooligosaccharide core L2
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130646,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130697,IEDB_135813,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136794,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_137776,IEDB_1391966,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_140108,IEDB_140110,IEDB_140122,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142351,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146100,IEDB_146664,IEDB_149144,IEDB_149174,IEDB_150933,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_418762,IEDB_418764,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418769,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_423120,IEDB_983931,SB_115,SB_116,SB_131,SB_145,SB_165,SB_166,SB_170,SB_171,SB_172,SB_173,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_30,SB_39,SB_6,SB_68,SB_7,SB_84,SB_88

• Article ID: 7
  Berrington AW, Tan YC, Srikhanta Y, Kuipers B, van der LP, Peak IR, Jennings MP "Phase variation in meningococcal lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis genes" - FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 34(4) (2002) 267-275
  

  Neisseria meningitidis expresses a range of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structures, comprising of at least 13 immunotypes (ITs). Meningococcal LOS is subject to phase variation of its terminal structures allowing switching between ITs, which is proposed to have functional significance in disease. The objectives of this study were to investigate the repertoire of structures that can be expressed in clinical isolates, and to examine the role of phase-variable expression of LOS genes during invasive disease. Southern blotting was used to detect the presence of LOS biosynthetic genes in two collections of meningococci, a global set of strains previously assigned to lineages of greater or lesser virulence, and a collection of local clinical isolates which included paired throat and blood isolates from individual patients. Where the phase-variable genes lgtA, lgtC or lgtG were identified, they were amplified by PCR and the homopolymeric tracts, responsible for their phase-variable expression, were sequenced. The results revealed great potential for variation between alternate LOS structures in the isolates studied, with most strains capable of expressing several alternative terminal structures. The structures predicted to be currently expressed by the genotype of the strains agreed well with conventional immunotyping. No correlation was observed between the structural repertoire and virulence of the isolate. Based on the potential for LOS phase variation in the clinical collection and observations with the paired patient isolates, our data suggest that phase variation of LOS structures is not required for translocation between distinct compartments in the host

  Lipopolysaccharide, biosynthesis, structure, Meningococcus, Phase variation, Lipooligosaccharide, Pathogenesis, Neisseria meningitidis, alternative, Bacterial Proteins, biosynthetic, blood, blotting, chemistry, clinical, correlation, disease, expression, functional, gene, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, genetics, genotype, growth & development, host, human, immunotype, immunotyping, invasive, isolate, LOS, meningococcal, Meningococcal Infections, meningococci, metabolism, microbiology, Neisseria, pathogenicity, PCR, phase, phenotype, polymerase chain reaction, potential, role, Sequence Analysis, DNA, significance, strain, structural, Support, Non-U.S.Gov't, terminal, tract, translocation, variation, Variation (Genetics), virulence

  NCBI PubMed ID: 12443826
  Journal NLM ID: 9315554
  Publisher: Elsevier
  Correspondence: jennings@biosci.uq.edu.au
  Institutions: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, School of Health Science, Gri?th University, Gold Coast Campus, Qld 4217, Australia
  Methods: PCR, DNA sequencing
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis
  CSDB ID 1606 (all data & tools)
• Article ID: 277
  Kahler CM, Carlson RW, Rahman MM, Martin LE, Stephens DS "Two glycosyltransferase genes, lgtF and rfaK, constitute the lipooligosaccharide ice (inner core extension) biosynthesis operon of Neisseria meningitidis" - Journal of Bacteriology 178(23) (1996) 6677-6684
  

  We have characterized an operon required for inner-core biosynthesis of the lipooligosaccharide (LOS) of Neisseria meningitidis. Using Tn916 mutagenesis, we recently identified the α-1,2-N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) transferase gene (rfaK), which when inactivated prevents the addition of GlcNAc and alpha chain to the meningococcal LOS inner core (C. M. Kahler, R. W. Carlson, M. M. Rahman, L. E. Martin, and D. S. Stephens, J. Bacteriol. 178:1265-1273, 1996). During the study of rfaK, a second open reading frame (lgtF) of 720 bp was found upstream of rfaK. An amino acid sequence homology search of the GenBank and EMBL databases revealed that the amino terminus of LgtF has significant homology with a family of β-glycosyltransferases involved in the biosynthesis of polysaccharides and O antigen of lipopolysaccharides. The chromosomal copy of lgtF was mutagenized with a nonpolar antibiotic resistance cassette to minimize potential polar effects on rfaK. Tricine sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and composition analysis of the LOS from the nonpolar lgtF mutant showed that this strain produced a truncated LOS structure which contained a LOS inner core of GlcNAc1Hep2KDO2lipid A but without the addition of lacto-N-neotetraose to HepI or glucose to HepII. These results and the amino acid homology with β-glycosyltransferases suggest that lgtF encodes the UDP-glucose:LOS-β-1,4-glucosyltransferase which attaches the first glucose residue to HepI of LOS. Reverse transcriptase PCR and primer extension analysis indicate that both lgtF and rfaK are cotranscribed as a polycistronic message from a promoter upstream of lgtF. This arrangement suggests that completion of the LOS inner core and the initiation of the alpha chain addition are tightly coregulated in N. meningitidis.

  biosynthesis, Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria meningitidis, gene, inner core, glycosyltransferase, operon

  NCBI PubMed ID: 8955282
  Journal NLM ID: 2985120R
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: dstep01@emory.edu
  Institutions: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, and The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
  Methods: genetic methods
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis L2
  CSDB ID 7176 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130646,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130697,IEDB_135813,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136794,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_137776,IEDB_1391966,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_140108,IEDB_140110,IEDB_140122,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142351,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146100,IEDB_146664,IEDB_149144,IEDB_149174,IEDB_150933,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_418762,IEDB_418764,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418769,IEDB_419429,IEDB_423120,IEDB_983931,SB_115,SB_116,SB_131,SB_145,SB_165,SB_166,SB_170,SB_171,SB_172,SB_173,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_30,SB_39,SB_6,SB_68,SB_7,SB_84,SB_88

• Article ID: 7
  Berrington AW, Tan YC, Srikhanta Y, Kuipers B, van der LP, Peak IR, Jennings MP "Phase variation in meningococcal lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis genes" - FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 34(4) (2002) 267-275
  

  Neisseria meningitidis expresses a range of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structures, comprising of at least 13 immunotypes (ITs). Meningococcal LOS is subject to phase variation of its terminal structures allowing switching between ITs, which is proposed to have functional significance in disease. The objectives of this study were to investigate the repertoire of structures that can be expressed in clinical isolates, and to examine the role of phase-variable expression of LOS genes during invasive disease. Southern blotting was used to detect the presence of LOS biosynthetic genes in two collections of meningococci, a global set of strains previously assigned to lineages of greater or lesser virulence, and a collection of local clinical isolates which included paired throat and blood isolates from individual patients. Where the phase-variable genes lgtA, lgtC or lgtG were identified, they were amplified by PCR and the homopolymeric tracts, responsible for their phase-variable expression, were sequenced. The results revealed great potential for variation between alternate LOS structures in the isolates studied, with most strains capable of expressing several alternative terminal structures. The structures predicted to be currently expressed by the genotype of the strains agreed well with conventional immunotyping. No correlation was observed between the structural repertoire and virulence of the isolate. Based on the potential for LOS phase variation in the clinical collection and observations with the paired patient isolates, our data suggest that phase variation of LOS structures is not required for translocation between distinct compartments in the host

  Lipopolysaccharide, biosynthesis, structure, Meningococcus, Phase variation, Lipooligosaccharide, Pathogenesis, Neisseria meningitidis, alternative, Bacterial Proteins, biosynthetic, blood, blotting, chemistry, clinical, correlation, disease, expression, functional, gene, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, genetics, genotype, growth & development, host, human, immunotype, immunotyping, invasive, isolate, LOS, meningococcal, Meningococcal Infections, meningococci, metabolism, microbiology, Neisseria, pathogenicity, PCR, phase, phenotype, polymerase chain reaction, potential, role, Sequence Analysis, DNA, significance, strain, structural, Support, Non-U.S.Gov't, terminal, tract, translocation, variation, Variation (Genetics), virulence

  NCBI PubMed ID: 12443826
  Journal NLM ID: 9315554
  Publisher: Elsevier
  Correspondence: jennings@biosci.uq.edu.au
  Institutions: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, School of Health Science, Gri?th University, Gold Coast Campus, Qld 4217, Australia
  Methods: PCR, DNA sequencing
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis
  CSDB ID 1708 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130646,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130697,IEDB_135813,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136794,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_137776,IEDB_1391966,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_140108,IEDB_140110,IEDB_140122,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142351,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146100,IEDB_146664,IEDB_149144,IEDB_149174,IEDB_150933,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_418761,IEDB_418762,IEDB_418763,IEDB_418764,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_423120,IEDB_983931,SB_115,SB_116,SB_131,SB_145,SB_165,SB_166,SB_170,SB_171,SB_172,SB_173,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_30,SB_39,SB_6,SB_68,SB_7,SB_84,SB_88

• Article ID: 7
  Berrington AW, Tan YC, Srikhanta Y, Kuipers B, van der LP, Peak IR, Jennings MP "Phase variation in meningococcal lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis genes" - FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 34(4) (2002) 267-275
  

  Neisseria meningitidis expresses a range of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structures, comprising of at least 13 immunotypes (ITs). Meningococcal LOS is subject to phase variation of its terminal structures allowing switching between ITs, which is proposed to have functional significance in disease. The objectives of this study were to investigate the repertoire of structures that can be expressed in clinical isolates, and to examine the role of phase-variable expression of LOS genes during invasive disease. Southern blotting was used to detect the presence of LOS biosynthetic genes in two collections of meningococci, a global set of strains previously assigned to lineages of greater or lesser virulence, and a collection of local clinical isolates which included paired throat and blood isolates from individual patients. Where the phase-variable genes lgtA, lgtC or lgtG were identified, they were amplified by PCR and the homopolymeric tracts, responsible for their phase-variable expression, were sequenced. The results revealed great potential for variation between alternate LOS structures in the isolates studied, with most strains capable of expressing several alternative terminal structures. The structures predicted to be currently expressed by the genotype of the strains agreed well with conventional immunotyping. No correlation was observed between the structural repertoire and virulence of the isolate. Based on the potential for LOS phase variation in the clinical collection and observations with the paired patient isolates, our data suggest that phase variation of LOS structures is not required for translocation between distinct compartments in the host

  Lipopolysaccharide, biosynthesis, structure, Meningococcus, Phase variation, Lipooligosaccharide, Pathogenesis, Neisseria meningitidis, alternative, Bacterial Proteins, biosynthetic, blood, blotting, chemistry, clinical, correlation, disease, expression, functional, gene, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, genetics, genotype, growth & development, host, human, immunotype, immunotyping, invasive, isolate, LOS, meningococcal, Meningococcal Infections, meningococci, metabolism, microbiology, Neisseria, pathogenicity, PCR, phase, phenotype, polymerase chain reaction, potential, role, Sequence Analysis, DNA, significance, strain, structural, Support, Non-U.S.Gov't, terminal, tract, translocation, variation, Variation (Genetics), virulence

  NCBI PubMed ID: 12443826
  Journal NLM ID: 9315554
  Publisher: Elsevier
  Correspondence: jennings@biosci.uq.edu.au
  Institutions: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, School of Health Science, Gri?th University, Gold Coast Campus, Qld 4217, Australia
  Methods: PCR, DNA sequencing
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis
  CSDB ID 1709 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Trivial name: lipooligosaccharide core L1
Compound class: core oligosaccharide, LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130651,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136906,IEDB_137472,IEDB_1391964,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144987,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151528,IEDB_151531,IEDB_152217,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_423106,IEDB_742247,IEDB_983931,SB_165,SB_166,SB_167,SB_178,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_31,SB_6,SB_62,SB_7,SB_88

• Article ID: 7
  Berrington AW, Tan YC, Srikhanta Y, Kuipers B, van der LP, Peak IR, Jennings MP "Phase variation in meningococcal lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis genes" - FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 34(4) (2002) 267-275
  

  Neisseria meningitidis expresses a range of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structures, comprising of at least 13 immunotypes (ITs). Meningococcal LOS is subject to phase variation of its terminal structures allowing switching between ITs, which is proposed to have functional significance in disease. The objectives of this study were to investigate the repertoire of structures that can be expressed in clinical isolates, and to examine the role of phase-variable expression of LOS genes during invasive disease. Southern blotting was used to detect the presence of LOS biosynthetic genes in two collections of meningococci, a global set of strains previously assigned to lineages of greater or lesser virulence, and a collection of local clinical isolates which included paired throat and blood isolates from individual patients. Where the phase-variable genes lgtA, lgtC or lgtG were identified, they were amplified by PCR and the homopolymeric tracts, responsible for their phase-variable expression, were sequenced. The results revealed great potential for variation between alternate LOS structures in the isolates studied, with most strains capable of expressing several alternative terminal structures. The structures predicted to be currently expressed by the genotype of the strains agreed well with conventional immunotyping. No correlation was observed between the structural repertoire and virulence of the isolate. Based on the potential for LOS phase variation in the clinical collection and observations with the paired patient isolates, our data suggest that phase variation of LOS structures is not required for translocation between distinct compartments in the host

  Lipopolysaccharide, biosynthesis, structure, Meningococcus, Phase variation, Lipooligosaccharide, Pathogenesis, Neisseria meningitidis, alternative, Bacterial Proteins, biosynthetic, blood, blotting, chemistry, clinical, correlation, disease, expression, functional, gene, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, genetics, genotype, growth & development, host, human, immunotype, immunotyping, invasive, isolate, LOS, meningococcal, Meningococcal Infections, meningococci, metabolism, microbiology, Neisseria, pathogenicity, PCR, phase, phenotype, polymerase chain reaction, potential, role, Sequence Analysis, DNA, significance, strain, structural, Support, Non-U.S.Gov't, terminal, tract, translocation, variation, Variation (Genetics), virulence

  NCBI PubMed ID: 12443826
  Journal NLM ID: 9315554
  Publisher: Elsevier
  Correspondence: jennings@biosci.uq.edu.au
  Institutions: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, School of Health Science, Gri?th University, Gold Coast Campus, Qld 4217, Australia
  Methods: PCR, DNA sequencing
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis
  CSDB ID 1710 (all data & tools)
• Article ID: 1621
  Kahler CM, Datta A, Tzeng YL, Carlson RW, Stephens DS "Inner core assembly and structure of the lipooligosaccharide of Neisseria meningitidis: capacity of strain NMB to express all known immunotype epitopes" - Glycobiology 15(4) (2005) 409-419
  

  Neisseria meningitidis expresses a heterogeneous population of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) inner cores variously substituted with α1-3-linked glucose and O-3, O-6, and O-7 linked phosphoethanolamine (PEA), as well as glycine, attached to HepII. Combinations of these attachments to the LOS inner core represent immunodominant epitopes that are being exploited as future vaccine candidates. Historically, each LOS immunotype was structurally assessed and prescribed a certain unique inner core epitope. We report that a single isolate, strain NMB, possesses the capacity to produce all of the known neisserial LOS inner core immunotype structures. Analysis of the inner cores from parental LOS revealed the presence or absence of α1,3-linked glucose, O-6 and/or O-7 linked PEA, in addition to glycine attached at the 7 position of the HepII inner core. Identification and inactivation of lpt-6 in strain NMB resulted in the loss of both O-6 and O-7 linked PEA groups from the LOS inner core, suggesting that Lpt-6 of strain NMB may have bifunctional transferase activities or that the O-6 linked PEA groups once attached to the inner core undergo nonenzymatic transfer to the O-7 position of HepII. Although O-3 linked PEA was not detected in parental LOS inner cores devoid of α1-3-linked glucose residues, LOS glycoforms bearing O-3 PEA groups accumulated in a truncated mutant, NMBlgtK (Hep2Kdo2-lipid A). Because these structures disappeared upon inactivation of the lpt-3 locus, strain NMB expresses a functional O-3 PEA transferase. The LOS glycoforms expressed by NMBlgtK were also devoid of glycine attachments, indicating that glycine was added to the inner core after the completion of the gamma-chain by LgtK. In conclusion, strain NMB has the capability to express all known inner core structures, but in in vitro culture L2 and L4 immunotype structures are predominantly expressed.

  NMR, structure, core, Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria meningitidis, immunotype, PCR, epitopes, mass spectrometry, inner core, MALDI-TOF, phosphoethanolamine, MS, vaccine, GLC, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight, MDO, membrane-derived oligosaccharide, gas-liquid chromatography, heptose PEA transferase, PMAA, partially methylated/ethylated aldtitol acetate

  NCBI PubMed ID: 15574803
  Journal NLM ID: 9104124
  Publisher: IRL Press at Oxford University Press
  Correspondence: charlene.kahler@med.monoash.edu.au
  Institutions: Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia
  Methods: methylation, NMR, sugar analysis, MALDI-TOF MS
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis L1
  CSDB ID 10558 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Trivial name: lipooligosaccharide core L8
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130650,IEDB_136044,IEDB_137472,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_983931,SB_165,SB_166,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_6,SB_7,SB_88

• Article ID: 7
  Berrington AW, Tan YC, Srikhanta Y, Kuipers B, van der LP, Peak IR, Jennings MP "Phase variation in meningococcal lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis genes" - FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 34(4) (2002) 267-275
  

  Neisseria meningitidis expresses a range of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structures, comprising of at least 13 immunotypes (ITs). Meningococcal LOS is subject to phase variation of its terminal structures allowing switching between ITs, which is proposed to have functional significance in disease. The objectives of this study were to investigate the repertoire of structures that can be expressed in clinical isolates, and to examine the role of phase-variable expression of LOS genes during invasive disease. Southern blotting was used to detect the presence of LOS biosynthetic genes in two collections of meningococci, a global set of strains previously assigned to lineages of greater or lesser virulence, and a collection of local clinical isolates which included paired throat and blood isolates from individual patients. Where the phase-variable genes lgtA, lgtC or lgtG were identified, they were amplified by PCR and the homopolymeric tracts, responsible for their phase-variable expression, were sequenced. The results revealed great potential for variation between alternate LOS structures in the isolates studied, with most strains capable of expressing several alternative terminal structures. The structures predicted to be currently expressed by the genotype of the strains agreed well with conventional immunotyping. No correlation was observed between the structural repertoire and virulence of the isolate. Based on the potential for LOS phase variation in the clinical collection and observations with the paired patient isolates, our data suggest that phase variation of LOS structures is not required for translocation between distinct compartments in the host

  Lipopolysaccharide, biosynthesis, structure, Meningococcus, Phase variation, Lipooligosaccharide, Pathogenesis, Neisseria meningitidis, alternative, Bacterial Proteins, biosynthetic, blood, blotting, chemistry, clinical, correlation, disease, expression, functional, gene, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, genetics, genotype, growth & development, host, human, immunotype, immunotyping, invasive, isolate, LOS, meningococcal, Meningococcal Infections, meningococci, metabolism, microbiology, Neisseria, pathogenicity, PCR, phase, phenotype, polymerase chain reaction, potential, role, Sequence Analysis, DNA, significance, strain, structural, Support, Non-U.S.Gov't, terminal, tract, translocation, variation, Variation (Genetics), virulence

  NCBI PubMed ID: 12443826
  Journal NLM ID: 9315554
  Publisher: Elsevier
  Correspondence: jennings@biosci.uq.edu.au
  Institutions: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, School of Health Science, Gri?th University, Gold Coast Campus, Qld 4217, Australia
  Methods: PCR, DNA sequencing
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis
  CSDB ID 1711 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130646,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_130697,IEDB_135813,IEDB_136044,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_137776,IEDB_1391966,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_140108,IEDB_140110,IEDB_140122,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142351,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_149144,IEDB_150939,IEDB_151531,IEDB_158549,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418762,IEDB_418764,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418769,IEDB_419429,IEDB_983931,SB_145,SB_165,SB_166,SB_173,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_30,SB_6,SB_7,SB_88

• Article ID: 106
  Tong Y, Arking D, Ye S, Reinhold B, Reinhold V, Stein DC "Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain PID2 simultaneously expresses six chemically related lipooligosaccharide structures" - Glycobiology 12(9) (2002) 523-533
  

  Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain PID2 was isolated from a woman suffering from pelvic inflammatory disease. When LOS expressed by this strain is analyzed on SDS-PAGE gels, at least six different lipooligosaccharide (LOS) components are visualized. We characterized the LOSs made by this strain by exoglycosidase digestion, sugar composition analysis, mass spectrometry, and analysis of the genes needed for its synthesis. DNA sequence analysis showed that the lgt gene cluster in this strain has undergone a rearrangement and that it possesses two copies of lgtA, one copy of lgtB and lgtC, and a hybrid gene containing sequences from lgtB and lgtE. We determined that the hybrid lgtB/E gene retained the lgtE gene function. DNA sequence analysis of the gene organization suggested that an intramolecular recombination between lgtA and lgtD and lgtB and lgtE had occurred via homologous recombination between similar sequences. Our studies demonstrated that fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis can be utilized to rapidly determine the composition of LOS. By combining exoglycosidase digestion, in combination with mass spectrometry analysis and compositional analysis, the data indicate that all of the LOS components produced by PID2 extend off of the alpha chain. The longest alpha chain oligosaccharide structure is Gal-GlcNAc-Gal-GlcNAc-Gal-Glc-Heptose I, and the six LOS components are built up by sequentially adding sugars onto the first heptose. PID2 LOS is the first Neisserial LOS to be shown to be devoid of phosphoethanolamine modifications. Because PID2 can surface express its LOS, it indicates that the addition of phosphoethanolamine is not required for LOS surface expression.

  LOS, mass spectrometry, carbohydrate epitopes, FACE analysis, lipooligosaccharide structure

  NCBI PubMed ID: 12213785
  Journal NLM ID: 9104124
  Publisher: IRL Press at Oxford University Press
  Methods: mild acid hydrolysis, MS, serological methods, electrophoresis
  
   
  
  Neisseria gonorrhoeae PID2
  CSDB ID 5216 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151531,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418769,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_983931,SB_192

• Article ID: 107
  Tong YH, Reinhold V, Reinhold B, Brandt B, Stein DC "Structural and immunochemical characterization of the lipooligosaccharides expressed by Neisseria subflava 44" - Journal of Bacteriology 183(3) (2001) 942-950
  

  Neisserial lipooligosaccharides (LOSs) are a family of complex cell surface glycolipids. We used mass spectrometry techniques (electrospray ionization, collision-induced dissociation, and multiple step), combined with fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis monosaccharide composition analysis, to determine the structure of the two low-molecular-mass LOS molecules (LOSI and LOSII) expressed by Neisseria subflava 44. We determined that LOSI contains one glucose on both the alpha and beta chains. LOSII is structurally related to LOSI and differs from it by the addition of a hexose (either glucose or galactose) on the alpha chain. LOSI and LOSII were able to bind monoclonal antibody (MAb) 25-1-LC1 when analyzed by Western blotting experiments. We used a set of genetically defined Neisseria gonorrhoeae mutants that expressed single defined LOS epitopes and a group of Neisseria meningitidis strains that expresses chemically defined LOS components to determine the structures recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1. We found that extensions onto the beta-chain glucose of LOSI block the recognition by this MAb, as does further elongation from the LOSII alpha chain. The LOSI structure was determined to be the minimum structure that is recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria, structural, characterization, immunochemical, lipooligosaccharides

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11208793
  Journal NLM ID: 2985120R
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: DS64@UMAIL.UMD.EDTJ
  Institutions: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
  Methods: ESI-MS, CID-MS/MS, FACE
  
   
  
  Neisseria subflava 44
  CSDB ID 5217 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130651,IEDB_130659,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136906,IEDB_137472,IEDB_1391964,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144987,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151528,IEDB_151531,IEDB_152217,IEDB_175430,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_423106,IEDB_742247,IEDB_983931,SB_165,SB_166,SB_167,SB_178,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_31,SB_6,SB_62,SB_7,SB_88

• Article ID: 120
  Tsai C, Chen WH, Balakonis PA "Characterization of terminal NeuNAca2-3Galb1-4GlcNAc sequence in lipooligosaccharide of Neisseria meningitidis" - Glycobiology 8(4) (1998) 359-365
  

  Group B and C Neisseria meningitidis are the major cause of meningococcal disease in the United States and in Europe. N . meningitidis lipooligosaccharide (LOS), a major surface antigen, can be divided into 12 immunotypes of which L1 through L8 were found among Group B and C organisms. Groups B and C but not Group A may sialylate their LOSs with N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuNAc) at the nonreducing end because they synthesize CMP-NeuNAc. Using sialic acid-galactose binding lectins as probes in an ELISA format, six of the eight LOS immunotypes (L2, L3, L4, L5, L7, and L8) in Groups B and C bound specifically to Maackia amurensis leukoagglutinin (MAL), which recognizes NeuNAcα2-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc/Glc sequence, but not to Sambucus nigra agglutinin, which binds NeuNAcα2-6Gal sequence. The combination of SDS-PAGE and MAL-blot analyses revealed that these six LOSs contained only the NeuNAcα2-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc trisaccharide sequence in their 4.1 kDa LOS components, which have a common terminal lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT, Galβ1-4GlcNAcβ1-3Galβ1-4Glc) structure when nonsialylated as shown by previous studies. The LOS-lectin binding was abolished when the LOSs were treated with Newcastle disease viral neuraminidase which cleaves α2→3 linked sialic acid. Methylation analysis of a representative LOS (L2) confirmed that NeuNAc is 2→3 linked to Gal. Thus, these LOSs structurally mimic certain glycolipids, i.e., paragloboside (LNnT-ceramide) and sialylparagloboside and some glycoproteins in having LNnT and N-acetyllactosamine sequences, respectively, with or without α2→3 linked NeuNAc. The molecular mimicry of the LOSs may play a role in the pathogenesis of N.meningitidis by assisting the organism to evade host immune defenses in man.

  LPS, structure, core, Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria, terminal, characterization, neuraminic acid, lactosamine, sequence

  NCBI PubMed ID: 9499383
  Journal NLM ID: 9104124
  Publisher: IRL Press at Oxford University Press
  Institutions: Division of Bacterial Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  Methods: methylation, ELISA
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis
  CSDB ID 5233 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130646,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_130697,IEDB_135813,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136794,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_137776,IEDB_1391966,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_140108,IEDB_140110,IEDB_140122,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142351,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146100,IEDB_146664,IEDB_149144,IEDB_149174,IEDB_150933,IEDB_151531,IEDB_175430,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418761,IEDB_418762,IEDB_418763,IEDB_418764,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_423120,IEDB_983931,SB_115,SB_116,SB_131,SB_145,SB_165,SB_166,SB_170,SB_171,SB_172,SB_173,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_30,SB_39,SB_6,SB_68,SB_7,SB_84,SB_88

• Article ID: 121
  Tsai CM, Kao G, Zhu P "Influence of the length of the lipooligosaccharide a chain on its sialylation in Neisseria meningitidis" - Infection and Immunity 70(1) (2002) 407-411
  

  The sialylation of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in Neisseria meningitidis plays a role in the resistance of the organism to killing by normal human serum. The length of the alpha chain extending out from the heptose I [Hep (I)] moiety of LOS influenced sialylation of N. meningitidis LOS in vitro and in vivo. The alpha chain required a terminal Gal and a trisaccharide or longer oligosaccharide to serve as an acceptor for sialylation. The disaccharide lactose (Galβ1-4Glc) in the alpha chain of immunotype L8 LOS could not function as an acceptor for the sialyltransferase, probably due to steric hindrance imposed by the neighboring Hep (II) with phosphorylethanolamine and another group attached.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria meningitidis, sialyltransferase, structure-activity relationship, Substrate Specificity

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11748209
  Journal NLM ID: 0246127
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: tsai@cber.fda.gov
  Institutions: Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA
  Methods: SDS-PAGE
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis M986-NCV
  CSDB ID 5234 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130651,IEDB_130659,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136794,IEDB_136906,IEDB_137472,IEDB_1391964,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144987,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146100,IEDB_146664,IEDB_149174,IEDB_150933,IEDB_151528,IEDB_151531,IEDB_152217,IEDB_175430,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_423106,IEDB_742247,IEDB_983931,SB_165,SB_166,SB_167,SB_170,SB_171,SB_172,SB_178,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_31,SB_39,SB_6,SB_62,SB_7,SB_84,SB_88

• Article ID: 121
  Tsai CM, Kao G, Zhu P "Influence of the length of the lipooligosaccharide a chain on its sialylation in Neisseria meningitidis" - Infection and Immunity 70(1) (2002) 407-411
  

  The sialylation of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in Neisseria meningitidis plays a role in the resistance of the organism to killing by normal human serum. The length of the alpha chain extending out from the heptose I [Hep (I)] moiety of LOS influenced sialylation of N. meningitidis LOS in vitro and in vivo. The alpha chain required a terminal Gal and a trisaccharide or longer oligosaccharide to serve as an acceptor for sialylation. The disaccharide lactose (Galβ1-4Glc) in the alpha chain of immunotype L8 LOS could not function as an acceptor for the sialyltransferase, probably due to steric hindrance imposed by the neighboring Hep (II) with phosphorylethanolamine and another group attached.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria meningitidis, sialyltransferase, structure-activity relationship, Substrate Specificity

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11748209
  Journal NLM ID: 0246127
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: tsai@cber.fda.gov
  Institutions: Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA
  Methods: SDS-PAGE
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis 126E (L1)
  CSDB ID 5375 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_130679,IEDB_136044,IEDB_136794,IEDB_137472,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146100,IEDB_146664,IEDB_149174,IEDB_150933,IEDB_151531,IEDB_175430,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_983931,SB_116,SB_165,SB_166,SB_170,SB_171,SB_172,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_37,SB_39,SB_6,SB_68,SB_7,SB_76,SB_84,SB_88

• Article ID: 121
  Tsai CM, Kao G, Zhu P "Influence of the length of the lipooligosaccharide a chain on its sialylation in Neisseria meningitidis" - Infection and Immunity 70(1) (2002) 407-411
  

  The sialylation of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in Neisseria meningitidis plays a role in the resistance of the organism to killing by normal human serum. The length of the alpha chain extending out from the heptose I [Hep (I)] moiety of LOS influenced sialylation of N. meningitidis LOS in vitro and in vivo. The alpha chain required a terminal Gal and a trisaccharide or longer oligosaccharide to serve as an acceptor for sialylation. The disaccharide lactose (Galβ1-4Glc) in the alpha chain of immunotype L8 LOS could not function as an acceptor for the sialyltransferase, probably due to steric hindrance imposed by the neighboring Hep (II) with phosphorylethanolamine and another group attached.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria meningitidis, sialyltransferase, structure-activity relationship, Substrate Specificity

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11748209
  Journal NLM ID: 0246127
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: tsai@cber.fda.gov
  Institutions: Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA
  Methods: SDS-PAGE
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis 7880 (L10)
  CSDB ID 5376 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_136044,IEDB_137472,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151531,IEDB_175430,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_983931,SB_165,SB_166,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_6,SB_7,SB_88

• Article ID: 121
  Tsai CM, Kao G, Zhu P "Influence of the length of the lipooligosaccharide a chain on its sialylation in Neisseria meningitidis" - Infection and Immunity 70(1) (2002) 407-411
  

  The sialylation of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in Neisseria meningitidis plays a role in the resistance of the organism to killing by normal human serum. The length of the alpha chain extending out from the heptose I [Hep (I)] moiety of LOS influenced sialylation of N. meningitidis LOS in vitro and in vivo. The alpha chain required a terminal Gal and a trisaccharide or longer oligosaccharide to serve as an acceptor for sialylation. The disaccharide lactose (Galβ1-4Glc) in the alpha chain of immunotype L8 LOS could not function as an acceptor for the sialyltransferase, probably due to steric hindrance imposed by the neighboring Hep (II) with phosphorylethanolamine and another group attached.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria meningitidis, sialyltransferase, structure-activity relationship, Substrate Specificity

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11748209
  Journal NLM ID: 0246127
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: tsai@cber.fda.gov
  Institutions: Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA
  Methods: SDS-PAGE
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis A1 (L8)
  CSDB ID 5377 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_136044,IEDB_137472,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418769,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_983931,SB_165,SB_166,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_6,SB_7,SB_88

• Article ID: 107
  Tong YH, Reinhold V, Reinhold B, Brandt B, Stein DC "Structural and immunochemical characterization of the lipooligosaccharides expressed by Neisseria subflava 44" - Journal of Bacteriology 183(3) (2001) 942-950
  

  Neisserial lipooligosaccharides (LOSs) are a family of complex cell surface glycolipids. We used mass spectrometry techniques (electrospray ionization, collision-induced dissociation, and multiple step), combined with fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis monosaccharide composition analysis, to determine the structure of the two low-molecular-mass LOS molecules (LOSI and LOSII) expressed by Neisseria subflava 44. We determined that LOSI contains one glucose on both the alpha and beta chains. LOSII is structurally related to LOSI and differs from it by the addition of a hexose (either glucose or galactose) on the alpha chain. LOSI and LOSII were able to bind monoclonal antibody (MAb) 25-1-LC1 when analyzed by Western blotting experiments. We used a set of genetically defined Neisseria gonorrhoeae mutants that expressed single defined LOS epitopes and a group of Neisseria meningitidis strains that expresses chemically defined LOS components to determine the structures recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1. We found that extensions onto the beta-chain glucose of LOSI block the recognition by this MAb, as does further elongation from the LOSII alpha chain. The LOSI structure was determined to be the minimum structure that is recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria, structural, characterization, immunochemical, lipooligosaccharides

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11208793
  Journal NLM ID: 2985120R
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: DS64@UMAIL.UMD.EDTJ
  Institutions: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
  Methods: ESI-MS, CID-MS/MS, FACE
  
   
  
  Neisseria subflava 44
  CSDB ID 5389 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: LOS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151531,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418769,IEDB_419429,IEDB_419430,IEDB_983931,SB_192

• Article ID: 107
  Tong YH, Reinhold V, Reinhold B, Brandt B, Stein DC "Structural and immunochemical characterization of the lipooligosaccharides expressed by Neisseria subflava 44" - Journal of Bacteriology 183(3) (2001) 942-950
  

  Neisserial lipooligosaccharides (LOSs) are a family of complex cell surface glycolipids. We used mass spectrometry techniques (electrospray ionization, collision-induced dissociation, and multiple step), combined with fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis monosaccharide composition analysis, to determine the structure of the two low-molecular-mass LOS molecules (LOSI and LOSII) expressed by Neisseria subflava 44. We determined that LOSI contains one glucose on both the alpha and beta chains. LOSII is structurally related to LOSI and differs from it by the addition of a hexose (either glucose or galactose) on the alpha chain. LOSI and LOSII were able to bind monoclonal antibody (MAb) 25-1-LC1 when analyzed by Western blotting experiments. We used a set of genetically defined Neisseria gonorrhoeae mutants that expressed single defined LOS epitopes and a group of Neisseria meningitidis strains that expresses chemically defined LOS components to determine the structures recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1. We found that extensions onto the beta-chain glucose of LOSI block the recognition by this MAb, as does further elongation from the LOSII alpha chain. The LOSI structure was determined to be the minimum structure that is recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria, structural, characterization, immunochemical, lipooligosaccharides

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11208793
  Journal NLM ID: 2985120R
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: DS64@UMAIL.UMD.EDTJ
  Institutions: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
  Methods: ESI-MS, CID-MS/MS, FACE
  
   
  
  Neisseria subflava 44
  CSDB ID 5390 (all data & tools)

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Structure type: oligomer
Aglycon: lipid A
Trivial name: core oligosaccharide L8
Compound class: core oligosaccharide, LOS, LPS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_120354,IEDB_123890,IEDB_130650,IEDB_130659,IEDB_136044,IEDB_137472,IEDB_140087,IEDB_140088,IEDB_140089,IEDB_140090,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142487,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151531,IEDB_175430,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_226300,IEDB_418765,IEDB_418766,IEDB_418767,IEDB_418768,IEDB_418769,IEDB_418770,IEDB_419428,IEDB_419429,IEDB_983931,SB_165,SB_166,SB_187,SB_192,SB_195,SB_6,SB_7,SB_88

• Article ID: 107
  Tong YH, Reinhold V, Reinhold B, Brandt B, Stein DC "Structural and immunochemical characterization of the lipooligosaccharides expressed by Neisseria subflava 44" - Journal of Bacteriology 183(3) (2001) 942-950
  

  Neisserial lipooligosaccharides (LOSs) are a family of complex cell surface glycolipids. We used mass spectrometry techniques (electrospray ionization, collision-induced dissociation, and multiple step), combined with fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis monosaccharide composition analysis, to determine the structure of the two low-molecular-mass LOS molecules (LOSI and LOSII) expressed by Neisseria subflava 44. We determined that LOSI contains one glucose on both the alpha and beta chains. LOSII is structurally related to LOSI and differs from it by the addition of a hexose (either glucose or galactose) on the alpha chain. LOSI and LOSII were able to bind monoclonal antibody (MAb) 25-1-LC1 when analyzed by Western blotting experiments. We used a set of genetically defined Neisseria gonorrhoeae mutants that expressed single defined LOS epitopes and a group of Neisseria meningitidis strains that expresses chemically defined LOS components to determine the structures recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1. We found that extensions onto the beta-chain glucose of LOSI block the recognition by this MAb, as does further elongation from the LOSII alpha chain. The LOSI structure was determined to be the minimum structure that is recognized by MAb 25-1-LC1.

  Lipooligosaccharide, Neisseria, structural, characterization, immunochemical, lipooligosaccharides

  NCBI PubMed ID: 11208793
  Journal NLM ID: 2985120R
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: DS64@UMAIL.UMD.EDTJ
  Institutions: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
  Methods: ESI-MS, CID-MS/MS, FACE
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis F62 lgtA
  CSDB ID 5391 (all data & tools)
• Article ID: 1110
  Plested JS, Makepeace K, Jennings MP, Gidney MAJ, Lacelle S, Brisson JR, Cox AD, Martin A, Bird AG, Tang CM, Mackinnon FM, Richards JC, Moxon ER "Conservation and accessibility of an inner core lipopolysaccharide epitope of Neisseria meningitidis" - Infection and Immunity 67(10) (1999) 5417-5426
  

  We investigated the conservation and antibody accessibility of inner core epitopes of Neisseria meningitidis lipopolysaccharide (LPS) because of their potential as vaccine candidates. An immunoglobulin G3 murine monoclonal antibody (MAb), designated MAb B5, was obtained by immunizing mice with a galE mutant of N. meningitidis H44/76 (B.15.P1.7,16 immunotype L3). We have shown that MAb B5 can bind to the core LPS of wild-type encapsulated MC58 (B.15.P1.7,16 immunotype L3) organisms in vitro and ex vivo. An inner core structure recognized by MAb B5 is conserved and accessible in 26 of 34 (76%) of group B and 78 of 112 (70%) of groups A, C, W, X, Y, and Z strains. N. meningitidis strains which possess this epitope are immunotypes in which phosphoethanolamine (PEtn) is linked to the 3-position of the b-chain heptose (HepII) of the inner core. In contrast, N. meningitidis strains lacking reactivity with MAb B5 have an alternative core structure in which PEtn is linked to an exocyclic position (i.e., position 6 or 7) of HepII (immunotypes L2, L4, and L6) or is absent (immunotype L5). We conclude that MAb B5 defines one or more of the major inner core glycoforms of N. meningitidis LPS. These findings support the possibility that immunogens capable of eliciting functional antibodies specific to inner core structures could be the basis of a vaccine against invasive infections caused by N. meningitidis.

  Lipopolysaccharide, core, Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria, epitope, conservation, inner core

  NCBI PubMed ID: 10496924
  Journal NLM ID: 0246127
  Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
  Correspondence: Joyce.Plested@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk
  Institutions: Molecular Infectious Disease Group, Oxford University Department of Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, Department of Clinical Immunology, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom, Department of Microbiology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia, the Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada K1A OR64
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis L8
  CSDB ID 4177 (all data & tools)
• Article ID: 3525
  O'Connor ET, Swanson KV, Cheng H, Fluss K, Griffiss JM, Stein DC "Structural requirements for monoclonal antibody 2-1-L8 recognition of neisserial lipooligosaccharides" - Hybridoma 27(2) (2008) 71-79
  

  Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that bind neisserial lipooligosaccharides (LOS) have been widely used in structural studies of these glycolipids. MAb 2-1-L8 binds LOS with a lactosyl a chain (Gal β1-4 Glc β1-4 [Glc-NAc α1-2 Hep2 α1-3] Hep1 α1-KDO) and at least one phosphoethanolamine (PEA) substitution of Hep2, but the requirement for PEA substitution and/or the exact position of this substitution, cyclic or exocyclic, remains unclear. In order to clarify the exact specificity of this MAb, we engineered an isogenic family of lpt mutants that each make LOS with a lactosyl a chain, but that lacked cyclic (-3Hep2), exocyclic (-6Hep2), or any PEA residues. Mass spectrometry showed that mutants that lack either Lpt3 or Lpt6 make small amounts of LOS with two PEA substitutions. Thus, each enzyme is able to phosphoethanolaminylate the alternate site, albeit with low efficiency. LOS made by the mutant that lacked both Lpt3 and Lpt6 was devoid of PEA. LOS made by the ∆lpt3 mutant did not bind MAb 2-1-L8 on Western blot analysis, whereas ∆ pt6 LOS did. Analysis of intact mutants by fluorescence-activated cell sorting confirmed that PEA substitution at 3Hep2, but not at 6Hep2, is needed for optimal binding of MAb 2-1-L8. These data confirm that the MAb 2-1-L8 epitope requires a -3Hep2 cyclic PEA substitution for optimal conformation and that this MAb specifies the PEA-3Hep2 lactosyl LOS structure

  conformation, monoclonal antibodies, epitopes, spectrometry, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, lipooligosaccharides, Binding Sites

  NCBI PubMed ID: 18642671
  Journal NLM ID: 8202424
  Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert
  Correspondence: dcstein@umd.edu
  Institutions: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  Methods: PCR, SDS-PAGE, MALDI-TOF MS, serological methods, genetic methods, immunoblotting, fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis
  
   
  
  Neisseria
  CSDB ID 22711 (all data & tools)
• Article ID: 6049
  Di Lorenzo F, Duda KA, Lanzetta R, Silipo A, De Castro C, Molinaro A "A Journey from Structure to Function of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides" - Chemical Reviews (2021)
  

  Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a crucial constituent of the outer membrane of most Gram-negative bacteria, playing a fundamental role in the protection of bacteria from environmental stress factors, in drug resistance, in pathogenesis, and in symbiosis. During the last decades, LPS has been thoroughly dissected, and massive information on this fascinating biomolecule is now available. In this Review, we will give the reader a third millennium update of the current knowledge of LPS with key information on the inherent peculiar carbohydrate chemistry due to often puzzling sugar residues that are uniquely found on it. Then, we will drive the reader through the complex and multifarious immunological outcomes that any given LPS can raise, which is strictly dependent on its chemical structure. Further, we will argue about issues that still remain unresolved and that would represent the immediate future of LPS research. It is critical to address these points to complete our notions on LPS chemistry, functions, and roles, in turn leading to innovative ways to manipulate the processes involving such a still controversial and intriguing biomolecule.

  Lipopolysaccharide, LPS, structure, Pathogenesis, carbohydrate, function, gram negative bacteria

  NCBI PubMed ID: 34286971
  Publication DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01321
  Journal NLM ID: 2985134R
  Publisher: Chem Rev
  Correspondence: Antonio Molinaro
  Institutions: Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy, Task Force on Microbiome Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy, Research Center Borstel Leibniz Lung Center, Parkallee 4a, 23845 Borstel, Germany, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Universita 96, 80055 Portici, Naples, Italy, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Osaka University Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
  
   
  
  Neisseria meningitidis
  CSDB ID 7920 (all data & tools)