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- Liu, Bin, et al.
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Genetic and structural relationships of Salmonella O55 and Escherichia coli O103 O-antigens and identification of a 3-hydroxybutanoyltransferase gene involved in the synthesis of a Fuc3N derivative
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Ingår i: Glycobiology. - : Oxford University Press. - 0959-6658 .- 1460-2423. ; 20:6, s. 679-688
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- O-antigen (O-polysaccharide), a part of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, is one of the most variable cell constituents and is related to bacterial virulence. O-antigen diversity is almost entirely due to genetic variations in O-antigen gene clusters. In this study, the O-polysaccharide structures of Salmonella O55 and Escherichia coli O103 were elucidated by chemical analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It was found that the O-polysaccharides have similar pentasaccharide O-units, which differ only in one sugar (glucose versus N-acetylglucosamine) and in the N-acyl group (acetyl versus 3-hydroxybutanoyl) on 3-amino-3,6-dideoxy-d-galactose (d-Fuc3N). The Salmonella O55 antigen gene cluster was sequenced and compared with the E. coli O103 antigen gene cluster reported previously. The two gene clusters were found to share high-level similarity (DNA identity ranges from 53% to 76%), except for two putative acyl transferase genes (fdtC in Salmonella O55 and fdhC in E. coli O103) which show no similarity. Replacement of the fdtC gene in Salmonella O55 with the fdhC gene from E. coli O103 resulted in production of a modified O-antigen, which contains a 3-hydroxybutanoyl derivative of Fuc3N in place of 3-acetamido-3,6-dideoxygalactose. This finding strongly suggests that fdhC is a 3-hydroxybutanoyltransferase gene. The sequence similarity level suggested that the O-antigen gene clusters of Salmonella O55 and E. coli O103 originate from a common ancestor, and this evolutionary relationship is discussed.
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- Senchenkova, Sof'ya N., et al.
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Structure and gene cluster of the O-antigen of Escherichia coli O165 containing 5-N-acetyl-7-N-[(R)-3-hydroxybutanoyl]pseudaminic acid
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Ingår i: Glycobiology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0959-6658 .- 1460-2423. ; 26:4, s. 335-342
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Upon mild acid degradation of the lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia coli O165, the O-polysaccharide chain was cleaved at the glycosidic linkage of 5-N-acetyl-7-N-[(R)-3-hydroxybutanoyl]pseudaminic acid (Pse5Hb7Ac). Analysis of the resulting linear tetrasaccharide and alkali-treated lipopolysaccharide by 1H/13C 1D and 2D nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy enabled elucidation of the following structure of the O-polysaccharide: →8)-α-Psep5Hb7Ac-(2 → 6)-β-D-Galp-(1 → 4)-β-D-Glсp-(1 → 3)-α-DGlсpNAc-(1→. The β-D-Galp-(1 → 4)-β-D-Glсp-(1 → 3)-D-GlсpNAc structural element is also present in the O-polysaccharide of E. coli O82. The content of the O-antigen gene cluster of E. coli O165 was found to be consistent with the O-polysaccharide structure established. Functions of proteins encoded in the gene cluster, including enzymes involved in the Pse5Hb7Ac biosynthesis and glycosyltransferases, were putatively assigned by comparison with sequences in available databases.
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