Jann K, Pillat M, Weisgerber C, Shibaev VN, Torgov VI. Biosynthesis of the O9 antigen of Escherichia coli. Synthetic glycosyldiphosphomoraprenols as probes for requirement of mannose acceptors.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1985;
151:393-7. [PMID:
2411556 DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1985.tb09114.x]
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Abstract
Synthetic monosaccharide derivatives (alpha-glucosyl, beta-glucosyl, alpha-mannosyl) and disaccharide derivatives (alpha-mannosyl-1,2-alpha-glucosyl, alpha-mannosyl-1,3-alpha-glucosyl, alpha-mannosyl-1,4-alpha-glucosyl, alpha-mannosyl-1,6-alpha-glucosyl) of diphosphomoraprenol were used as putative mannose acceptors in the biosynthesis of Escherichia coli O9 antigen. Membranes of E. coli O9 derived from the rfe mutant F 1357 were reconstituted with these compounds and then incubated with different concentrations of GDP-[14C]mannose. Of the monosaccharide derivatives tested, only alpha-glucodiphosphomoraprenol was a mannose acceptor and the only disaccharide derivative which accepted mannose was alpha-mannosyl-1,3-alpha-glucosyldiphosphomoraprenol. The alpha-glucosyl derivative accepted only one mannose unit at 4 microM GDP-[14C]mannose, and above 50 microM GDP-[14C]mannose about 25% of the product had a minimum size of about 30 mannose units. The alpha-mannosyl-1,3-alpha-glucosyl derivative was only a mannose acceptor at a GDP-[14C]mannose concentration of 50 microM and higher, and the product had a minimum size of about 30 mannose units. The results are discussed with respect to requirement of mannose acceptors.
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