Sandulache R, Prehm P, Expert D, Toussaint A, Kamp D The cell wall receptor for bacteriophage Mu G(-) in Erwinia and Escherichia coli C FEMS Microbiology Letters28 (1985)
307-310
The structure was elucidated in this paper Journal NLM ID:7705721 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Institutions: Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, 8033 Martinsried bei München F.R.G.
Adsorption of bacteriophage Mu with its invertible DNA segment in the G(−) orientation requires a terminal glucose residue for binding to the core lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Gram-negative bacteria. Analysis of a Mu-resistant mutant shows that the receptor for MuG(−) in Erwinia B374 is a Glc-β1,6-Glc disaccharide. A spontaneously occurring host-range mutant, MuG(−)h101, grows on Escherichia coli C. The loss of the terminal β1,3-linked glucose from the LPS of E. coli C leads to resistance to the phage Mu. These mutants are also resistant to phage P1 and D108 which have largely homologous G segments. This shows that MuG(+) and G(−) phage particles differ with respect to their cell-wall receptors in the type of glycosidic linkage of a terminal glucose residue: α1, 2 for G(+) and β1,6 for G(−).
Related record ID(s): 125998, 125999, 126000 NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs):498388 Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G76145EU, GlycomeDB:11570 Show glycosyltransferases
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