Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
The structure was elucidated in this paperNCBI PubMed ID: 27083849Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2016.04.025Journal NLM ID: 7909578Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Correspondence: yknirel
gmail.com
Institutions: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
Fine structure of the O-polysaccharide chain of the lipopolysaccharide (O-antigen) defines the serospecificity of bacterial cells, which is the basis for O-serotyping of medically and agriculturally important gram-negative bacteria including Escherichia coli. In order to obtain the O-polysaccharide for structural analysis, the lipopolysaccharide was isolated from cells of E. coli O84a by phenol/water extraction and degraded with mild acid. However, the O-polysaccharide was cleaved at a highly acid-labile β-l-fucopyranosyl phosphate (β-l-Fucp-1-P) linkage to give mainly a pentasaccharide that corresponded to the O-polysaccharide repeat. Therefore, the lipopolysaccharide and the pentasaccharide as well as their O-deacylated derivatives were studied using sugar analysis, NMR spectroscopy, and (for oligosaccharides) ESI HR MS, and the O84-polysaccharide structure was established. The O-polysaccharide is distinguished by the presence of β-l-Fucp-1-P and randomly di-O-acetylated 6-deoxy-d-talose, which are found for the first time in natural carbohydrates. The gene cluster for the O84-antigen biosynthesis was analysed and its content was found to be consistent with the O-polysaccharide structure.
Escherichia coli, O-specific polysaccharide, Glycosyl phosphate, bacterial polysaccharide structure, O-antigen gene cluster, 6-deoxy-D-talose
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: p.582, fig.2
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, O-antigen
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135813,IEDB_136045,IEDB_137340,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142488,IEDB_142489,IEDB_144562,IEDB_144998,IEDB_145669,IEDB_146664,IEDB_150092,IEDB_151531,IEDB_152214,IEDB_174333,IEDB_983931,SB_192,SB_86
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, NMR-2D, sugar analysis, 31P NMR, GLC, de-O-acetylation, NMR-1D, SEC, mild acid degradation, function analysis of gene clusters, HR-ESI-MS
Comments, role: OPS are contained various di-O-acetylated 6dTal residues: 2,3-Ac2-6dTal, 2,4-Ac2-6dTal and 3,4-Ac2-6dTal.
Related record ID(s): 11586, 11587, 11588, 11589
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562
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