Cheng JS, Wang W, Wang Q, Gao CX, Wang L Molecular characterization of O-antigen gene cluster of Escherichia coli O23 reference strain and identification of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 4-epimerase Wei sheng wu xue bao = Acta microbiologica Sinica [Chinese]46(5) (2006)
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NCBI PubMed ID:17172013 Journal NLM ID:21610860R Publisher: Beijing : Science Press Correspondence: jiansong_chengyahoo.com.cn Institutions: College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the major components of the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria. It is an amphipathic molecule composing of lipid A, a core oligosaccharide and an O-specific antigen. O-antigen, which is a repeat unit polysaccharide, is a major contribution to the antigenic variability of the bacterial cell surface. Genes involved in O-antigen biosynthesis are generally found to be clustered between the housekeeping genes galF and gnd on the chromosome of E. coli. E. coli O23 is one of the enterotoxigenic E. coli causing pediatric diarrhea in the developing world. The O-antigen gene cluster of E. coli O23 type strain was amplified by long-range PCR using primers based on galF and gnd and then sequenced. Except for galF and gnd, seven open reading frames were identified and assigned functions on the basis of their similarity to those from available databases. The seven genes include a UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 4-epimerase gene (gne), the O-antigen polymerase gene (wzy), the O-antigen transferase gene (wzx) and four glycosyltransferase genes (orf2, orf4, orf5, orf6). The UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 4-epimerase (Gne) was identified by mutation and complementation complement tests. The structure of Gne was predicted by the homology modeling method, and the active sites were also analyzed. The phylogenetic and structural analysis showed that the Gne derived from the common ancestor with E. coli O23 Gne were UDP-GlcNAc/UDP-GalNAc epimerases. The specific DNA used for rapid molecular genotyping for E. coli O23 was also identified
Methods: DNA sequencing, bioinformatic analysis Enzymes that release or process the structure: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 4-epimerase Biosynthesis and genetic data: genetic data, biosynthetic data Comments, role: article in Chinese
Related record ID(s): 26906, 30377 NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs):1095708 Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G83559JR Show glycosyltransferases
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