Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Escherichia coli [ICD11:
XN6P4 
]
Journal NLM ID: 8008051Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Correspondence: matilde.manzoni
unimi.it
Institutions: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Alimentari, Sezione di Microbiologia Industriale, Universita degli Studi, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italia
The K5 capsular polysaccharide antigen of some Escherichia coli strains is the non-sulphated precursor in heparin biosynthesis. It is composed by two components, 16 000 and 1500 Da, whose ratio depends on the activity of the extracellular form of a lyase synthesized by the same K5 producer strain. The lyase activity on the K5 chain size was greatly influenced by the medium composition employed for the lyase production. The control of lyase activity results in defined ratios of the two components in the K5 polysaccharide that is suitable for the semisynthetic production of heparin-like molecules.
polysaccharide, Escherichia coli, capsular polysaccharide, activity, extracellular, lyase, culture, heparin-like
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: p.81
Trivial name: K5 polysaccharide, K-antigen, N-acetyl heparosan, heparosan (N-acetylheparosan), heparosan, heparosan (glycosaminoglycan GAG), K5 CPS, heparosan (K5-antigen), N-acetylheparosan
Compound class: CPS, EPS, K-antigen, polysaccharide
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_115136,IEDB_137340,IEDB_140630,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531,IEDB_153764,IEDB_423153
Biosynthesis and genetic data: data on biosynthesis and activity of a lyase that acts on the K5 polysaccharidic
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 562Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G26089XS, GlycomeDB:
656
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