Taxonomic group: bacteria / Firmicutes
(Phylum: Firmicutes)
Associated disease: infection due to Bacillus subtilis [ICD11:
XM4SG9 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 21999535Journal NLM ID: 0376536Publisher: Nauka/Interperiodica
Correspondence: potekchina
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Institutions: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Anionic phosphate-containing cell wall polymers of bacilli are represented by teichoic acids and poly(glycosyl 1-phosphates). Different locations of phosphodiester bonds in the main chain of teichoic acids as well as the nature and combination of the constituent structural elements underlie their structural diversity. Currently, the structures of teichoic acids of bacilli can be classified into three types, viz. poly(polyol phosphates) with glycerol or ribitol as the polyol; poly(glycosylpolyol phosphates), mainly glycerol-containing polymers; and poly(acylglycosylglycerol phosphate), in which the components are covalently linked through glycosidic, phosphodiester, and amide bonds. In addition to teichoic acids, poly(glycosyl 1-phosphates) with mono- and disaccharide residues in the repeating units have been detected in cell walls of several Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus pumilus strains. The known structures of teichoic acids and poly(glycosyl 1-phosphates) of B. subtilis, B. atrophaeus, B. licheniformis, B. pumilus, B. stearothermophilus, B. coagulans, B. cereus as well as oligomers that link the polymers to peptidoglycan are surveyed. The reported data on the structures of phosphate-containing polymers of different strains of B. subtilis suggest heterogeneity of the species and may be of interest for the taxonomy of bacilli to allow differentiation of closely related organisms according to the 'structures and composition of cell wall polymers' criterion.
cell wall, teichoic acids, Bacillus, poly(glycosyl 1-phosphates)
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: p.748, table 2, PDB 1,3-type
Trivial name: teichoic acid, poly(glycosyl 1-phosphate)
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, teichoic acid
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Comments, role: review; in the polymer from B. subtilis ssp. subtilis AHU 1235, and/or D-alanine residue attached at the C2 of glycerol
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 1423,
1452Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G11065PF
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