Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 22533617Publication DOI: 10.2174/092986612802762714Journal NLM ID: 9441434Publisher: Hilversum, the Netherlands: Bentham Science Publishers
Correspondence: decastro

unina.it
Institutions: Division of Structural Biochemistry, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany, Department of Chemical Sciences, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia, 4 I-80126 Napoli, Italy
This mini-review gives a structural view on the lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), the endotoxin from Gram negative bacteria, paying attention on the features that are relevant for their activity as elicitors of the innate immune system of humans, animals and plants
LPS, lipid A, endotoxin, innate immunity, PAMP, PRR
Structure type: oligomer
Location inside paper: p.1042, fig.3, left
Compound class: LPS, lipid A, glycolipid, phosphoglycolipid
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135394,IEDB_135515,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531,IEDB_176772,IEDB_534864
Comments, role: mini review
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562
Show glycosyltransferases
There is only one chemically distinct structure: