Volpi N Separation of Escherichia coli 055:B5 lipopolysaccharide and detoxified lipopolysaccharide by high-performance capillary electrophoresis Electrophoresis24(17) (2003)
3097-3103
NCBI PubMed ID:12973815 Journal NLM ID:8204476 Publisher: Wiley-VCH Correspondence: volpiunimo.it Institutions: Department of Biologia Animale, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
A rapid, highly sensitive and reproducible high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE) method (electrokinetic chromatography with sodium dodecyl sulfate) is described for the determination of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and detoxified LPS (D-LPS), produced by both alkaline treatment in anhydrous conditions and mild acid hydrolysis, from Escherichia coli 055:B5 bacteria. LPS and D-LPS are separated and readily determined within 25 min on an uncoated fused-silica capillary using normal polarity at 20 kV and detection at 200 nm. A linear relationship (correlation coefficient greater than about 0.97) was found for the LPS and the two D-LPS species over a wide range of concentrations, from approximately 120 to 360 ng, with a detection sensitivity less than about 100 ng. Furthermore, HPCE was able to separate several molecular species mainly due to the presence of populations with O-specific polysaccharides of distinct and increasing mean chain lengths. This approach could be of great importance for the quantitative determination of LPS and D-LPS during the purification and preparation processes, also considering the importance of D-LPS in the preparation of human vaccines, and for the qualitative evaluation of the heterogeneity of LPS and the O-polysaccharide components
Methods: SDS-PAGE, mild acid hydrolysis, alkaline degradation, HPCE Comments, role: chemical repeat frame is different in the paper
Related record ID(s): 5554, 7239, 11273, 20658, 28398, 30374, 108629, 113595, 113759 NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs):2170726 Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G96674TM Show glycosyltransferases
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