Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 9792656Journal NLM ID: 2985121RPublisher: Baltimore, MD: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Correspondence: cwhitfie
uoguelph.ca
Institutions: Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G2W1, Canada.
The major core oligosaccharide biosynthesis operons from prototype Escherichia coli strains displaying R1 and R4 lipopolysaccharide core types were polymerase chain reaction-amplified and analyzed. Comparison of deduced products of the open reading frames between the two regions indicate that all but two share total similarities of 94% or greater. Core oligosaccharide structures resulting from nonpolar insertion mutations in each gene of the core OS biosynthesis operon in the R1 strain allowed assignment of all of the glycosyltransferase enzymes required for outer core assembly. The difference between the R1 and R4 core oligosaccharides results from the specificity of the WaaV protein (a β1, 3-glucosyltransferase) in R1 and WaaX (a β1, 4-galactosyltransferase) in R4. Complementation of the waaV mutant of the R1 prototype strain with the waaX gene of the R4 strain converted the core oligosaccharide from an R1- to an R4-type lipopolysaccharide core molecule. Aside from generating core oligosaccharide specificity, the unique β-linked glucopyranosyl residue of the R1 core plays a crucial role in organization of the lipopolysaccharide. This residue provides a novel attachment site for lipid A-core-linked polysaccharides and distinguishes the R1-type LPS from existing models for enterobacterial lipopolysaccharides.
lipopolysaccharides, core, Escherichia, Escherichia coli, type, O-polysaccharide, specific, attachment site
Structure type: oligomer
Location inside paper: p.29499, fig. 1
Aglycon: lipid A
Compound class: core oligosaccharide
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_131186,IEDB_135818,IEDB_136906,IEDB_137472,IEDB_141794,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_151528,IEDB_153543,IEDB_190606,IEDB_2189047,IEDB_983931,SB_192,SB_7
Methods: 1H NMR, methylation
Biosynthesis and genetic data: biosynthesis data, genetic data
Comments, role: outer core
Related record ID(s): 7250
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562
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