Ganeshapillai J, Boncheff AG, Slavic D, Macinnes J, Monteiro MA The lipopolysaccharide core of Actinobacillus suis and its relationship to those of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Biochemistry and Cell Biology89(3) (2011)
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The structure was elucidated in this paper NCBI PubMed ID:21639829 Publication DOI:10.1139/o11-003 Journal NLM ID:8606068 Publisher: Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada Correspondence: M.A. Monteiro <monteirouoguelph.ca> Institutions: Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Canada
The Gram-negative bacteria Actinobacillus suis colonizes the upper respiratory and genital tracts of swine. Along with capsular polysaccharides, lipopolysaccharides (O-chain→core→lipid A~cell) are a main cell-surface component of A. suis. In this study, we determined that A. suis lipopolysaccharide incorporates a conserved core that shares some structural features with several core types of A. pleuropneumoniae . These common core structural features likely account for the observed serological cross-reactivity between A. suis and A. pleuropneumoniae, and the data suggest that the structural epitopes responsible for immunogenicity are those in the outer core domain.