Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Campylobacter jejuni [ICD11:
XN4Q5 
]
The structure was elucidated in this paperNCBI PubMed ID: 19282391Publication DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwp039Journal NLM ID: 9104124Publisher: IRL Press at Oxford University Press
Correspondence: ian.schoenhofen
nrc-cnrc-gc.ca
Institutions: Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6
The sialic acid-like sugar 5,7-diacetamido-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxy-D-glycero-D-galacto-nonulosonic acid, or legionaminic acid, is found as a virulence-associated cell-surface glycoconjugate in the Gram-negative bacteria Legionella pneumophila and Campylobacter coli. L. pneumophila serogroup 1 strains, causative agents of Legionnaire's disease, contain an α2,4-linked homopolymer of legionaminic acid within their lipopolysaccharide O-chains, whereas the gastrointestinal pathogen C. coli modifies its flagellin with this monosaccharide via O-linkage. In this work, we have purified and biochemically characterized eleven candidate biosynthetic enzymes from C. jejuni, thereby fully reconstituting the biosynthesis of legionaminic acid and its CMP-activated form, starting from fructose-6-P. This pathway involves unique GDP-linked intermediates, likely providing a cellular mechanism for differentiating between this and similar UDP-linked pathways, such as UDP-2,4-diacetamido-bacillosamine biosynthesis involved in N-linked protein glycosylation. Importantly, these findings provide a facile method for efficient large-scale synthesis of legionaminic acid, and since legionaminic acid and sialic acid share the same D-glycero-D-galacto absolute configuration, this sugar may now be evaluated for its potential as a sialic acid mimic.
Campylobacter jejuni, sialic acid, legionaminic acid, flagellin glycosylation, neuraminic aid
Structure type: monomer
Location inside paper: p.717, fig.2,V
Trivial name: GDP-GlcNAc
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_137340,IEDB_141493,IEDB_141807,IEDB_149170,IEDB_150077,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190357
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, SDS-PAGE, genetic methods, biochemical methods, capillary electrophoresis (CE), CE-MS
Biological activity: kenetic data,substrat specificity data
Enzymes that release or process the structure: GlmU, N-acetyltransferase
Synthetic data: enzymatic
Comments, role: first substrate for biosynthesis of legionaminic acid
Related record ID(s): 23836, 24207, 24208, 24209, 24211, 24212, 24213, 24214, 24215, 24216, 24288
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 197
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NMR conditions: in D2O at 298 K
[as TSV]
13C NMR data:
Linkage Residue C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
5,0,0,2 Ac
5,0,0 aDGlcpN 95.1 54.5 71.7 70.3 73.8 61.2
5,0 P
5 P
xXnucG
1H NMR data:
Linkage Residue H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6
5,0,0,2 Ac
5,0,0 aDGlcpN 5.51 3.99 3.81 3.55 3.92 3.82-3.86
5,0 P
5 P
xXnucG
1H/13C HSQC data:
Linkage Residue C1/H1 C2/H2 C3/H3 C4/H4 C5/H5 C6/H6
5,0,0,2 Ac
5,0,0 aDGlcpN 95.1/5.51 54.5/3.99 71.7/3.81 70.3/3.55 73.8/3.92 61.2/3.82-3.86
5,0 P
5 P
xXnucG
1H NMR data:
| Linkage | Residue | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
|---|
| 5,0,0,2 | Ac | |
| 5,0,0 | aDGlcpN | 5.51 | 3.99 | 3.81 | 3.55 | 3.92 | 3.82
3.86 |
| 5,0 | P | |
| 5 | P | |
| | xXnucG | |
|
13C NMR data:
| Linkage | Residue | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C6 |
|---|
| 5,0,0,2 | Ac | |
| 5,0,0 | aDGlcpN | 95.1 | 54.5 | 71.7 | 70.3 | 73.8 | 61.2 |
| 5,0 | P | |
| 5 | P | |
| | xXnucG | |
|
There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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