Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: infection due to Campylobacter jejuni [ICD11:
XN4Q5 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 31449400Publication DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00548Journal NLM ID: 0370623Publisher: American Chemical Society
Correspondence: raushel
tamu.edu
Institutions: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) structure of Campylobacter jejuni contributes to its robust fitness. Many strains contain heptose moieties in their CPS units. The precursor heptose is GDP-d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose; modifications to the stereochemistry at C3-C6 as well as additions of methyl and phosphoramidate groups lend to the hypervariability of the C. jejuni CPS structures. Synthesis of GDP-d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose has been described previously, but using enzymes from Aneurinibacillus thermoaerophilus DSM 10155. Here we describe the complete synthesis of GDP-d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose using enzymes from C. jejuni NTCC 11168: Cj1152 and Cj1423-Cj1425. Our results yield kinetic parameters for these enzymes and outline a successful strategy for milligram-gram scale synthesis of GDP-d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose. This achievement is critical for the characterization of other carbohydrate tailoring enzymes, which are expected to utilize GDP-d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose for the biosynthesis of more complex carbohydrates in the CPS of C. jejuni.
biosynthesis, synthesis, structure, heptose, capsular polysaccharide, Campylobacter jejuni, modification, Enzymes, phosphoramidate, stereochemistry
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: fig.S12, HS10
Compound class: CPS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135813,IEDB_137340,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, kinetics assays, 31P NMR, anion-exchange chromatography, MS, genetic methods, HPLC, UV, cloning, bioinformatic analysis, enzymatic synthesis
Related record ID(s): 771, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776, 777, 778, 779, 781, 782, 783, 1031
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 197
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