Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Burkholderia pseudomallei [ICD11:
XN3LD 
]
The structure was elucidated in this paperNCBI PubMed ID: 34474230Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2021.114340Journal NLM ID: 8309336Publisher: London: Elsevier
Correspondence: (J. Yan <zijie1011

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Institutions: Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Pharmacy and Medical Laboratory, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing 400038, PR China
Burkholderia pseudomallei causes melioidosis - an infectious disease with high mortality. Its varied clinical manifestations and resistance to many antibiotics make it a potential biothreat agent and calls for a robust diagnostic assay and effective vaccines. Bacterial cell surface polysaccharides are considered a valuable target for diagnostics and as protective antigen candidates. This study characterized the structure of polysaccharides of B. pseudomallei clinical strain from Hainan, China. A novel structural domain [→3-(α-D-Manp-1→3-α-D-Manp)2-2Me-α-L-6dTalp-1→] was identified by chemical analysis, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and 1D/2D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Immunofluorescence and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) showed that the serum antibodies against the purified polysaccharide antigen could recognize and bind specifically to B. pseudomallei strains. Additionally, the assays revealed cross-reactivity with polysaccharides from different clinical strains. The polysaccharide antigen also exhibited a strong reaction with the sera from melioidosis patients. Thus, the pentasaccharide repeating unit residue could be a potential candidate antigen for the melioidosis serodiagnosis and vaccine development.
polysaccharide, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Structural characterization, immunological characteristics
Structure type: structural motif or average structure
Location inside paper: abstract, p. 114340-6, table 3, BPC006-BPPI-b1 fraction
Trivial name: antigen epitope
Compound class: surface polysaccharide
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_115576,IEDB_130701,IEDB_140116,IEDB_144983,IEDB_152206,IEDB_164174,IEDB_76933,IEDB_983930,SB_197,SB_44,SB_67,SB_72
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, methylation, NMR-2D, GC-MS, ELISA, anion-exchange chromatography, composition analysis, GPC, UV, extraction, statistical analysis, immunization, immunofluorescence analyses
Comments, role: NMR temperature was not specified. Possible error in the NMR assignment (Table 1): the same subspectrum is attributed to multiple aDManp residues in different structural surrounding.
Related record ID(s): 10445, 10446, 10447
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 1229785
Show glycosyltransferases
NMR conditions: in D2O
[as TSV]
13C NMR data:
Linkage Residue C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
3 aDManp
2 Me 55.46
aL6dTalp 100.39 76.69 72.92 68.44 70.48 14.29
1H NMR data:
Linkage Residue H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6
3 aDManp
2 Me 3.35
aL6dTalp 5.23 3.68 4.08 4.09 4.30 1.18
1H/13C HSQC data:
Linkage Residue C1/H1 C2/H2 C3/H3 C4/H4 C5/H5 C6/H6
3 aDManp
2 Me 55.46/3.35
aL6dTalp 100.39/5.23 76.69/3.68 72.92/4.08 68.44/4.09 70.48/4.30 14.29/1.18
1H NMR data:
| Linkage | Residue | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 3 | aDManp | |
| 2 | Me | 3.35 | |
| | aL6dTalp | 5.23 | 3.68 | 4.08 | 4.09 | 4.30 | 1.18 |
|
13C NMR data:
| Linkage | Residue | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C6 |
| 3 | aDManp | |
| 2 | Me | 55.46 | |
| | aL6dTalp | 100.39 | 76.69 | 72.92 | 68.44 | 70.48 | 14.29 |
|
There is only one chemically distinct structure: