Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
WWW link: http://baztech.icm.edu.pl/baztech/cgi-bin/btgetdoc.cgi?BUS2-0016-0014Publisher: Polish Chemical Society
Correspondence: jerzyg
chemik.chem.univ.gda.pl
Institutions: Wydzial Chemii, Uniwersytet Gdanski, ul. Sobieskiego 18, 80-952 Gdansk
Salmonella spp. are pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria that belong to Enterobacteriaceae family with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a constituent of cell wall. This is an integral component of the outer membrane of the wall. Salmonella smooth (S) forms produce LPS, which is composed of three parts, chemically bonded together viz. polysaccharide O-antigen, oligosaccharide core region and lipid A. Antigens O (O-PS) together with H flagella antigens are the foundation of serological classification of these bacteria. O-chain, which is built with up to 50 oligosaccharide repeating units, is one of the products of mild acidic hydrolysis of LPS. Due to the fact that polysaccharide antigens are the sites of specific antibody complexing, any difference in primary and secondary structures of O-antigens reflect serological specificity of bacteria. Taking this fact into consideration, we can distinguish about 2541 Salmonella serotypes with O and H antigenic formulas defined [4]. In this review we present 55 chemical structures of O-antigenic repeating units of Salmonella strains including their heterogeneity structures. The structures can have 22 different monosaccharide residues usually in 3 to 6 sugar repeating units. We describe here selected chemical and spectroscopic (MS, NMR) methods for primary structure examination of these bacterial O-PS. Enzymatic and immunochemical methods are also described. Cross-reactions of Salmonella spp. with any other bacteria or blood group A, B, 0 antigens are explained on the molecular level. Thus, structural assignments of somatic antigens of Salmonella spp. allow us to understand the molecular level of the classification system of these bacteria.
NMR spectroscopy, O-antigens, Salmonella, MS, primary structure
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: p.645, table 3
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, O-antigen
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130648,IEDB_130701,IEDB_136104,IEDB_137473,IEDB_137485,IEDB_1391961,IEDB_140116,IEDB_141584,IEDB_141830,IEDB_143632,IEDB_144983,IEDB_152206,IEDB_885822,IEDB_983930,SB_136,SB_196,SB_44,SB_67,SB_72
Comments, role: in Polish;
Related record ID(s): 9250, 22712, 108631, 115468
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 340188Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G82509QD, GlycomeDB:
3519
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(previously named: Salmonella cerro K)