Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 27836696Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2016.11.004Journal NLM ID: 0217513Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: adam.choma
poczta.umcs.lublin.pl
Institutions: Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
This review focuses on the chemistry and structures of (Brady)rhizobium lipids A, indispensable parts of lipopolysaccharides. These lipids contain unusual (omega-1) hydroxylated very long chain fatty acids, which are synthesized by a very limited group of bacteria, besides rhizobia. The significance and requirement of the very long chain fatty acids for outer membrane stability as well as the genetics of the synthesis pathway are discussed. The biological role of these fatty acids for bacterial life in extremely different environments (soil and intracellular space within nodules) is also considered.
lipid A, Rhizobium, Nodule-forming bacteria, Very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA)
Structure type: oligomer
Location inside paper: p.197, table 1, compound 1
Compound class: LPS, lipid A, glycolipid, phosphoglycolipid
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135394,IEDB_135515,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531,IEDB_176772,IEDB_534864
Comments, role: review
Related record ID(s): 12068, 12069, 12070, 12071, 12072, 12073, 12074
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562
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