Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 7685279Publication DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb17919.xJournal NLM ID: 0107600Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd. on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Institutions: Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Freiburg, Germany
In previous studies it had been shown that lipopolysaccharide from O4-specific recombinant Escherichia coli, had serological reactivities and a chemical composition that differed from wildtype O4 LPS [Haraguchi, G.E., Zähringer, U., Jann, B., Jann, K., Hull, R.A. & Hull, S.I. (1991) Microb. Pathog. 10, 351-361]. Here we present the structural elucidation of the O-specific moieties from lipopolysaccharides of some of the recombinant strains obtained in previous studies. Compositional analysis, methylation, chemical reactions and NMR spectroscopy showed that, during genetic manipulations (recombination, cosmid cloning, plasmid subcloning), a gradual structural change in the O-specific polysaccharides was observed in the recombinant strains. These changes comprised of an alteration in the position of glucose (side chain) substitution, a change in the anomeric configuration of the main-chain N-acetylglucosamine and an exchange of alpha-L-rhamnopyranose for beta-D-galactofuranose. The relevance of these results for lipopolysaccharide cloning and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis are discussed.
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: 6
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, O-antigen
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135813,IEDB_136105,IEDB_137340,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142488,IEDB_143253,IEDB_144144,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151531,IEDB_225177,IEDB_885823,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Comments, role: genotype: recombinant
Related record ID(s): 124169
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G15184HP, GlycomeDB:
8176
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