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Hoffmann A, Zollinger M, Pacios K, Bucsella B, Kalman F. Reversed-phase HPLC based assay for selective and sensitive endotoxin quantification - part II. J Chromatogr A 2024; 1717:464657. [PMID: 38280360 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2024.464657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 01/29/2024]
Abstract
The impact of naturally occurring 3-deoxy-d-manno‑oct-2-ulsonic acid (Kdo) derivatives on endotoxin (ET) quantification was investigated for six ET standards. In our recently published chemical Kdo-DMB-LC ET assay (Bucsella et al., Anal. Methods, 2020, 12,4621) [1], the rare, ET specific sugar acid Kdo is used for ET quantification of S-type ETs. The ET content is calculated based on an external Kdo standard or a representative ET standard. In absence of a specific ET standard, the calculation is based on the reference standard ET (RSE) structure or on a worst-case scenario. This scenario overestimates the total ET content of typical S-type ET preparations by a factor of four. Mainly R-type ETs contain in addition to Kdo also Kdo-s non-stoichiometrically modified with phosphoethanolamine (PEtN), galactose (Gal) or L‑glycero-d-manno-heptose (Hep) in substantial quantities. These Kdo species are separated from the unmodified Kdo. All Kdo and Kdo species follow an exponential hydrolytic release from the ET core in dependence on the hydrolysis time. Hydrolysis kinetics for identical Kdo species are the same for all ET standards. Kdo-Gal was released fastest followed by unsubstituted Kdo, Kdo-PEtN, and Kdo-Hep. Between 90 and 150 min a plateau of maximum content is obtained for all Kdo-s. That allows in case of a representative ET standard, ET quantification based on the most present Kdo derivative, here mainly unsubstituted Kdo. If no representative ET standard is available Kdo and all Kdo species must be considered for ET quantification. With that the Kdo-DMB-LC assay is applicable for R- and S-type ETs.
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- Anika Hoffmann
- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais, Institute of Life Technologies, Rue de l'Industrie 23, Sion 1950, Switzerland
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais, Institute of Life Technologies, Rue de l'Industrie 23, Sion 1950, Switzerland
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais, Institute of Life Technologies, Rue de l'Industrie 23, Sion 1950, Switzerland
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- University of Zürich, Department of Chemistry, Winterthurerstr. 190, Zürich 8057, CH, Switzerland
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais, Institute of Life Technologies, Rue de l'Industrie 23, Sion 1950, Switzerland.
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Gorman A, Golovanov AP. Lipopolysaccharide Structure and the Phenomenon of Low Endotoxin Recovery. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2022; 180:289-307. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2022.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pupo E, van der Ley P, Meiring HD. Nanoflow LC-MS Method Allowing In-Depth Characterization of Natural Heterogeneity of Complex Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides. Anal Chem 2021; 93:15832-15839. [PMID: 34807566 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The variable modification of the outer membrane lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in Gram-negative bacteria contributes to bacterial pathogenesis through various mechanisms, including the development of antibiotic resistance and evasion of the immune response of the host. Characterizing the natural structural repertoire of LPS is challenging due to the high heterogeneity, branched architecture, and strong amphipathic character of these glycolipids. To address this problem, we have developed a method enabling the separation and structural profiling of complex intact LPS mixtures by using nanoflow reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (nLC) coupled to electrospray ionization Fourier transform mass spectrometry (ESI-FT-MSn). Nanogram quantities of rough-type LPS mixtures from Neisseria meningitidis could be separated and analyzed by nLC-ESI-FT-MS. Furthermore, the method enabled the analysis of highly heterogeneous smooth (S)-type LPS from pathogenic enteric bacteria such as Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium and Escherichia coli serotype O111:B4. High-resolution, accurate mass spectra of intact LPS containing various lengths of the O-specific polysaccharide in the range of 3 and 15 kDa were obtained. In addition, MS/MS experiments with collision-induced dissociation of intact LPS provided detailed information on the composition of oligo/polysaccharides and lipid A domains of single S-type LPS species. The structural heterogeneity of S-type LPS was characterized by unprecedented details. Our results demonstrate that nLC-ESI-FT-MSn is an attractive strategy for the structural profiling of small quantities of complex bacterial LPS mixtures in their intact form.
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- Elder Pupo
- Department of Product Characterization and Formulation, Institute for Translational Vaccinology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3721 MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Development, Institute for Translational Vaccinology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3721 MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Product Characterization and Formulation, Institute for Translational Vaccinology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3721 MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Complete Lipooligosaccharide Structure from Pseudoalteromonas nigrifaciens Sq02-Rif r and Study of Its Immunomodulatory Activity. Mar Drugs 2021; 19:md19110646. [PMID: 34822517 PMCID: PMC8623723 DOI: 10.3390/md19110646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are surface glycoconjugates embedded in the external leaflet of the outer membrane (OM) of the Gram-negative bacteria. They consist of three regions: lipid A, core oligosaccharide (OS), and O-specific polysaccharide or O-antigen. Lipid A is the glycolipid endotoxin domain that anchors the LPS molecule to the OM, and therefore, its chemical structure is crucial in the maintenance of membrane integrity in the Gram-negative bacteria. In this paper, we reported the characterization of the lipid A and OS structures from Pseudoalteromonas nigrifaciens Sq02-Rifr, which is a psychrotrophic Gram-negative bacterium isolated from the intestine of Seriola quinqueradiata. The immunomodulatory activity of both LPS and lipid A was also examined.
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Troudi A, Pagès JM, Brunel JM. Chemical Highlights Supporting the Role of Lipid A in Efficient Biological Adaptation of Gram-Negative Bacteria to External Stresses. J Med Chem 2021; 64:1816-1834. [PMID: 33538159 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c02185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria provides an efficient barrier against external noxious compounds such as antimicrobial agents. Associated with drug target modification, it contributes to the overall failure of chemotherapy. In the complex OM architecture, Lipid A plays an essential role by anchoring the lipopolysaccharide in the membrane and ensuring the spatial organization between lipids, proteins, and sugars. Currently, the targets of almost all antibiotics are intracellularly located and require translocation across membranes. We report herein an integrated view of Lipid A synthesis, membrane assembly, a structure comparison at the molecular structure level of numerous Gram-negative bacterial species, as well as its recent use as a target for original antibacterial molecules. This review paves the way for a new vision of a key membrane component that acts during bacterial adaptation to environmental stresses and for the development of new weapons against microbial resistance to usual antibiotics.
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- Azza Troudi
- UMR-MD1, U1261, Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, SSA, MCT, 13385 Marseille, France.,Laboratory of Microorganisms and Active Biomolecules, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis 1008, Tunisia
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- UMR-MD1, U1261, Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, SSA, MCT, 13385 Marseille, France
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- UMR-MD1, U1261, Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, SSA, MCT, 13385 Marseille, France
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Lipopolysaccharide-Linked Enterobacterial Common Antigen (ECA LPS) Occurs in Rough Strains of Escherichia coli R1, R2, and R4. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21176038. [PMID: 32839412 PMCID: PMC7504096 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21176038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) is a conserved surface antigen characteristic for Enterobacteriaceae. It is consisting of trisaccharide repeating unit, →3)-α-d-Fucp4NAc-(1→4)-β-d-ManpNAcA-(1→4)-α-d-GlcpNAc-(1→, where prevailing forms include ECA linked to phosphatidylglycerol (ECAPG) and cyclic ECA (ECACYC). Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-associated form (ECALPS) has been proved to date only for rough Shigella sonnei phase II. Depending on the structure organization, ECA constitutes surface antigen (ECAPG and ECALPS) or maintains the outer membrane permeability barrier (ECACYC). The existence of LPS was hypothesized in the 1960–80s on the basis of serological observations. Only a few Escherichia coli strains (i.e., R1, R2, R3, R4, and K-12) have led to the generation of anti-ECA antibodies upon immunization, excluding ECAPG as an immunogen and conjecturing ECALPS as the only immunogenic form. Here, we presented a structural survey of ECALPS in E. coli R1, R2, R3, and R4 to correlate previous serological observations with the presence of ECALPS. The low yields of ECALPS were identified in the R1, R2, and R4 strains, where ECA occupied outer core residues of LPS that used to be substituted by O-specific polysaccharide in the case of smooth LPS. Previously published observations and hypotheses regarding the immunogenicity and biosynthesis of ECALPS were discussed and correlated with presented herein structural data.
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Choi YR, Kim KS, Bandu R, Kim H, Lee JE, Shin B, Cho YJ, Park JM, Lee H, Kim KP. Liquid Chromatography/Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry‐based Structural Analysis of Deacylated Lipooligosaccharides From Escherichia coli. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/bkcs.11993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Yu Ri Choi
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Natural Science, Global Center for Pharmaceutical Ingredient MaterialsKyung Hee University Yongin 17104 Republic of Korea
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- R&D center, EyeGene Goyang 10551 Republic of Korea
- Department of Integrated Bioscience and BiotechnologySejong University Seoul 05006 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Natural Science, Global Center for Pharmaceutical Ingredient MaterialsKyung Hee University Yongin 17104 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Natural Science, Global Center for Pharmaceutical Ingredient MaterialsKyung Hee University Yongin 17104 Republic of Korea
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- R&D center, EyeGene Goyang 10551 Republic of Korea
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- R&D center, EyeGene Goyang 10551 Republic of Korea
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- College of PharmacyGachon University Incheon 21936 Republic of Korea
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- College of PharmacyGachon University Incheon 21936 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Natural Science, Global Center for Pharmaceutical Ingredient MaterialsKyung Hee University Yongin 17104 Republic of Korea
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Klein DR, Powers MJ, Trent MS, Brodbelt JS. Top-Down Characterization of Lipooligosaccharides from Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. Anal Chem 2019; 91:9608-9615. [PMID: 31305072 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Modification of structures of lipooligosaccharides (LOS) represents one prevalent mechanism by which Gram-negative bacteria can become resistant to key antibiotics. Owing to the significant complexity of LOS, the structural characterization of these amphipathic lipids has largely focused on elucidation of the lipid A substructures. Analysis of intact LOS enables detection of core oligosaccharide modifications and gives insight into the heterogeneity that results from combinations of lipid A and oligosaccharide substructures. Top-down analysis of intact LOS also provides the opportunity to determine unknown oligosaccharide structures, which is particularly advantageous in the context of glycoconjugate vaccine development. Advances in mass spectrometry technologies, including the development of MSn capabilities and alternative ion activation techniques, have made top-down analysis an indispensable tool for structural characterization of complex biomolecules. Here we combine online chromatographic separations with MS3 utilizing ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) and higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD). HCD generally provides information about the presence of labile modifications via neutral loss fragments in addition to the saccharide linkage arrangement, whereas UVPD gives more detailed insight about saccharide branching and the positions of nonstoichiometric modifications. This integrated approach was used to characterize LOS from Acinetobacter baumannii 1205 and 5075. Notably, MS3 analysis of A. baumannii 1205, an antibiotic-resistant strain, confirmed phosphoethanolamine and hexosamine modification of the lipid A substructure and further enabled derivation of a core oligosaccharide structure.
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- Dustin R Klein
- Department of Chemistry , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Infectious Diseases , The University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States.,Department of Microbiology , The University of Georgia, College of Arts and Sciences , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States
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- Department of Infectious Diseases , The University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States.,Department of Microbiology , The University of Georgia, College of Arts and Sciences , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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Crittenden CM, Escobar EE, Williams PE, Sanders JD, Brodbelt JS. Characterization of Antigenic Oligosaccharides from Gram-Negative Bacteria via Activated Electron Photodetachment Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2019; 91:4672-4679. [PMID: 30844257 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Lipooligosaccharides (LOS), composed of hydrophilic oligosaccharides and hydrophobic lipid A domains, are found on the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria. Here we report the characterization of deacylated LOS of LPS by activated-electron photodetachment mass spectrometry. Collision induced dissociation (CID) of these phosphorylated oligosaccharides produces simple MS/MS spectra with most fragment ions arising from cleavages near the reducing end of the molecule where the phosphate groups are located. In contrast, 193 nm ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) generates a wide array of product ions throughout the oligosaccharide including cross-ring fragments that illuminate the branching patterns. However, there are also product ions that are redundant or uninformative, resulting in more congested spectra that complicate interpretation. In this work, a hybrid UVPD-CID approach known as activated-electron photodetachment (a-EPD) affords less congested spectra than UVPD alone and richer fragmentation patterns than CID alone. a-EPD combines UVPD of negatively charged oligosaccharides to yield abundant charge-reduced radical ions which are subsequently interrogated by collisional activation. CID of the charge-reduced precursors results in extensive fragmentation throughout the backbone of the oligosaccharide. This hybridized a-EPD approach was employed to characterize the structure and branching pattern of deacylated LOS of E. coli.
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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Micciulla S, Gerelli Y, Schneck E. Structure and Conformation of Wild-Type Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide Layers at Air-Water Interfaces. Biophys J 2019; 116:1259-1269. [PMID: 30878200 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is of great scientific interest because it mediates the action of antimicrobial agents. The membrane surface is composed of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) molecules with negatively charged oligosaccharide headgroups. To a certain fraction, LPSs additionally display linear polysaccharides termed O-side chains (OSCs). Structural studies on bacterial outer surfaces models, based on LPS monolayers at air-water interfaces, have so far dealt only with rough mutant LPSs lacking these OSCs. Here, we characterize monolayers of wild-type LPS from Escherichia coli O55:B5 featuring strain-specific OSCs in the presence of defined concentrations of monovalent and divalent ions. Pressure-area isotherms yield insight into in-plane molecular interactions and monolayer elastic moduli. Structural investigations by x-ray and neutron reflectometry reveal the saccharide conformation and allow quantifying the area per molecule and the fraction of LPS molecules carrying OSCs. The OSC conformation is satisfactorily described by the self-consistent field theory for end-grafted polymer brushes. The monolayers exhibit a significant structural response to divalent cations, which goes beyond generic electrostatic screening.
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- Samantha Micciulla
- Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France; Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.
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Frirdich E, Whitfield C. Review: Lipopolysaccharide inner core oligosaccharide structure and outer membrane stability in human pathogens belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/09680519050110030201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In the Enterobacteriaceae, the outer membrane is primarily comprised of lipopolysaccharides. The lipopolysaccharide molecule is important in mediating interactions between the bacterium and its environment and those regions of the molecule extending further away from the cell surface show a higher amount of structural diversity. The hydrophobic lipid A is highly conserved, due to its important role in the structural integrity of the outer membrane. Attached to the lipid A region is the core oligosaccharide. The inner core oligosaccharide (lipid A proximal) backbone is also well conserved. However, non-stoichiometric substitutions of the basic inner core structure lead to structural variation and microheterogeneity. These include the addition of negatively charged groups (phosphate or galacturonic acid), ethanolamine derivatives, and glycose residues (Kdo, rhamnose, galactose, glucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, heptose, Ko). The genetics and biosynthesis of these substitutions is beginning to be elucidated. Modification of heptose residues with negatively charged molecules (such as phosphate in Escherichia coli and Salmonella and galacturonic acid in Klebsiella pneumoniae ) has been shown to be involved in maintaining membrane stability. However, the biological role(s) of the remaining substitutions is unknown.
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- Emilisa Frirdich
- Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada,
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Shang W, Xiao Z, Yu Z, Wei N, Zhao G, Zhang Q, Wei M, Wang X, Wang PG, Li T. Chemical synthesis of the outer core oligosaccharide of Escherichia coli R3 and immunological evaluation. Org Biomol Chem 2015; 13:4321-30. [PMID: 25764373 DOI: 10.1039/c5ob00177c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Lipopolysaccharides (LPS), major virulence determinants in Gram-negative bacteria, are responsible for many pathophysiological responses and can elicit strong immune responses. In order to better understand the role of LPS in host-pathogen interactions and elucidate the immunogenic properties of LPS outer core oligosaccharides, an all α-linked Escherichia coli R3 outer core pentasaccharide was first synthesized with a propyl amino linker at the reducing end. This oligosaccharide was also covalently conjugated to a carrier protein (CRM197) via the reducing end propyl amino linker. Immunological analysis demonstrated that this glycoconjugate can elicit specific anti-pentasaccharide antibodies with in vitro bactericidal activity. These findings will contribute to the further exploration of this pentasaccharide antigen as a vaccine candidate.
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- Wenjing Shang
- National Glycoengineering Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China.
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Han JE, Wui SR, Kim KS, Cho YJ, Cho WJ, Lee NG. Characterization of the structure and immunostimulatory activity of a vaccine adjuvant, de-O-acylated lipooligosaccharide. PLoS One 2014; 9:e85838. [PMID: 24465739 PMCID: PMC3899070 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2013] [Accepted: 12/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a major component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. LPS elicits strong immunopathological responses during bacterial infection, and the lipid A moiety of LPS is responsible for this immunostimulatory activity. Lipid A exerts its biological activity by sending signals via TLR4 present on immune cells, and TLR4 agonists have been a target for vaccine adjuvant. Previously, we demonstrated an adjuvant activity of deacylated lipooligosaccharide (dLOS) to viral and bacterial antigens. In this study, we characterized the chemical structure of dLOS and evaluated its immunostimulatory activity on mouse and human immune cells in comparison with monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL). dLOS consists of a core oligosaccharide lacking the terminal glucose residue, a glucosamine disaccharide with two phosphate groups, and two N-linked acyl groups. dLOS was similar to MPL in induction of cytokine production in mouse peritoneal macrophages, but was a more potent activator in human monocytes and dendritic cells (DCs). Results of an analysis of allogeneic T cell responses revealed that dLOS induces Th1, Th2, and Th17-type immune responses in a dose-dependent manner. The immunostimulatory activities of dLOS were completely abrogated in TLR4−/− mice, which confirms its TLR4-dependency. These results suggest that in the presence of the core oligosaccharide, O-linked acyl groups of LPS are dispensable for activating the TLR4 signaling pathway. dLOS did not cause any pathological effects or death at 0.25, 0.5, or 1 mg per kg body weight in mice in the acute toxicity tests. This result suggests that dLOS has a low toxicity. dLOS should be considered for further development as a safe and effective adjuvant for human vaccines.
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MESH Headings
- Acylation
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/chemistry
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/pharmacology
- Animals
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytokines/blood
- Cytokines/immunology
- Cytokines/metabolism
- Dendritic Cells/drug effects
- Dendritic Cells/immunology
- Dendritic Cells/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Lipopolysaccharides/chemistry
- Lipopolysaccharides/immunology
- Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/drug effects
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Molecular Structure
- Monocytes/drug effects
- Monocytes/immunology
- Monocytes/metabolism
- Toll-Like Receptor 4/deficiency
- Toll-Like Receptor 4/genetics
- Toll-Like Receptor 4/immunology
- Vaccines/immunology
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- Ji Eun Han
- Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, College of Bioscience, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, College of Bioscience, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Research & Development Center, EyeGene, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Research & Development Center, EyeGene, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Yonsei University Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, College of Bioscience, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Lodowska J, Wolny D, Węglarz L. The sugar 3-deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid (Kdo) as a characteristic component of bacterial endotoxin — a review of its biosynthesis, function, and placement in the lipopolysaccharide core. Can J Microbiol 2013; 59:645-55. [DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2013-0490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The sugar 3-deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid (Kdo) is a characteristic component of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin). It connects the carbohydrate part of LPS with C6 of glucosamine or 2,3-diaminoglucose of lipid A by acid-labile α-ketosidic linkage. The number of Kdo units present in LPS, the way they are connected, and the occurrence of other substituents (P, PEtn, PPEtn, Gal, or β-l-Ara4N) account for structural diversity of the inner core region of endotoxin. In a majority of cases, Kdo is crucial to the viability and growth of bacterial cells. In this paper, the biosynthesis of Kdo and the mechanism of its incorporation into the LPS structure, as well as the location of this unique component in the endotoxin core structures, have been described.
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- Jolanta Lodowska
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Silesia, Narcyzow 1 Street, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
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- Department of Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Silesia, Narcyzow 1 St., 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Silesia, Narcyzow 1 Street, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
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Bobko E, Tyras M, Jachymek W. Reprint of “New complete structure of Hafnia alvei clinical isolate strain PCM 2670 semi-rough lipopolysaccharide”. Carbohydr Res 2013; 378:71-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2013.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Revised: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 03/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bobko E, Tyras M, Jachymek W. New complete structure of Hafnia alvei clinical isolate strain PCM 2670 semi-rough lipopolysaccharide. Carbohydr Res 2013; 374:67-74. [PMID: 23643833 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2013.03.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Revised: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 03/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hafnia alvei strain PCM 2670 is a clinical isolate from a patient with chronic reproductive tract infection. The novel structure of the semi-rough lipopolysaccharide was established with the use of NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry as well as immunochemical techniques. According to the mass spectrometry data, heptose in the oligosaccharide is partially substituted by glycine. H. alvei PCM 2670 core structure encompasses the common core of H. alvei which is modified with two additional galactose units. [structure: see text]. The 6-substituted galactose is the O-antigen repeating unit substitution residue. The repeating unit consists of five monosaccharide residues and has the following structure: →2)-β-Galp-(1→6)-α-Glcp-(1→6)-αGlcpNAc3OAc-(1→4)-α-GalpA-(1→3)-β-GlcpNAc6OAc-(1→6)-core.
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- Ewelina Bobko
- Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
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Pupo E, Lindner B, Brade H, Schromm AB. Intact rough- and smooth-form lipopolysaccharides from Escherichia coli separated by preparative gel electrophoresis exhibit differential biologic activity in human macrophages. FEBS J 2013; 280:1095-111. [PMID: 23279861 DOI: 10.1111/febs.12104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2012] [Revised: 11/19/2012] [Accepted: 12/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We established a new preparative separation procedure, based on DOC/PAGE, to isolate intact lipopolysaccharide (LPS) fractions from natural LPS preparations of Escherichia coli. Analysis of the chemical integrity of LPS fractions by MS showed that no significant chemical modifications were introduced by the procedure. Contamination with toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2)-reactive cell-wall components present in the natural LPS mixture was effectively removed by the procedure, as determined by the absence of reactivity of the purified fractions in a HEK293-TLR2 cell line. Biologic analysis of LPS fractions derived from E. coli O111 in human macrophages demonstrated that the rough (R), semirough (SR) and smooth (S) LPS fractions were highly active at inducing tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) in the presence of human serum; however, on a weight basis the R-LPS and SR-LPS fractions were more active, by a factor of 10-100, than was the S-LPS fraction. Under serum-free conditions, the natural LPS mixture, as well as the R-LPS and SR-LPS fractions, showed dose-dependent activation of macrophages, although the response was attenuated by about 10- to 100-fold. In contrast, the S-LPS fraction failed to induce TNF-α. Remarkably, the dose-response of the natural LPS mixture resembled that of the R-LPS and SR-LPS fractions, supporting that short-chain (R and SR) forms of LPS dominate the innate immune response of human macrophages to LPS in vitro. Biologic activity to the S-LPS fraction under serum-free conditions could be restored by the addition of recombinant lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP). In contrast, soluble cluster of differentiation antigen 14 was not able to confer activity of the S-LPS fraction, indicating a crucial role of LBP in the recognition of S-LPS by human macrophages.
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- Elder Pupo
- Division of Medical and Biochemical Microbiology, Department of Molecular Infection Biology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany
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Klein G, Müller-Loennies S, Lindner B, Kobylak N, Brade H, Raina S. Molecular and structural basis of inner core lipopolysaccharide alterations in Escherichia coli: incorporation of glucuronic acid and phosphoethanolamine in the heptose region. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:8111-8127. [PMID: 23372159 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.445981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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It is well established that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) often carries nonstoichiometric substitutions in lipid A and in the inner core. In this work, the molecular basis of inner core alterations and their physiological significance are addressed. A new inner core modification of LPS is described, which arises due to the addition of glucuronic acid on the third heptose with a concomitant loss of phosphate on the second heptose. This was shown by chemical and structural analyses. Furthermore, the gene whose product is responsible for the addition of this sugar was identified in all Escherichia coli core types and in Salmonella and was designated waaH. Its deduced amino acid sequence exhibits homology to glycosyltransferase family 2. The transcription of the waaH gene is positively regulated by the PhoB/R two-component system in a growth phase-dependent manner, which is coordinated with the transcription of the ugd gene explaining the genetic basis of this modification. Glucuronic acid modification was observed in E. coli B, K12, R2, and R4 core types and in Salmonella. We also show that the phosphoethanolamine (P-EtN) addition on heptose I in E. coli K12 requires the product of the ORF yijP, a new gene designated as eptC. Incorporation of P-EtN is also positively regulated by PhoB/R, although it can occur at a basal level without a requirement for any regulatory inducible systems. This P-EtN modification is essential for resistance to a variety of factors, which destabilize the outer membrane like the addition of SDS or challenge to sublethal concentrations of Zn(2+).
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- Gracjana Klein
- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, 23845 Borstel, Germany; Department of Microbiology, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
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- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
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- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, 23845 Borstel, Germany; Department of Microbiology, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland.
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Marti R, Zurfluh K, Hagens S, Pianezzi J, Klumpp J, Loessner MJ. Long tail fibres of the novel broad-host-range T-even bacteriophage S16 specifically recognize Salmonella OmpC. Mol Microbiol 2013; 87:818-34. [PMID: 23289425 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We report isolation and characterization of the novel T4-like Salmonella bacteriophage vB_SenM-S16. S16 features a T-even morphology and a highly modified 160 kbp dsDNA genome with 36.9 mol % G+C, containing 269 putative coding sequences and three tRNA genes. S16 is a virulent phage, and exhibits a maximally broad host range within the genus Salmonella, but does not infect other bacteria. Synthesis of functional S16 full-length long tail fibre (LTF) in Escherichia coli was possible by coexpression of gp37 and gp38. Surface plasmon resonance analysis revealed nanomolar equilibrium affinity of the LTF to its receptor on Salmonella cells. We show that OmpC serves as primary binding ligand, and that S16 adsorption can be transferred to E. coli by substitution of ompC with the Salmonella homologue. S16 also infects 'rough' Salmonella strains which are defective in lipopolysaccharide synthesis and/or its carbohydrate substitution, indicating that this interaction does not require an intact LPS structure. Altogether, its virulent nature, broad host range and apparent lack of host DNA transduction render S16 highly suitable for biocontrol of Salmonella in foods and animal production. The S16 LTF represents a highly specific affinity reagent useful for cell decoration and labelling, as well as bacterial immobilization and separation.
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- Roger Marti
- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Brade L, Heine H, Raina S, Klein G, Di Padova F, Brade H, Müller-Loennies S. Immunization with an anti-idiotypic antibody against the broadly lipopolysaccharide-reactive antibody WN1 222-5 induces Escherichia coli R3-core-type specific antibodies in rabbits. Innate Immun 2011; 18:279-93. [PMID: 21844130 DOI: 10.1177/1753425911401055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) WN1 222-5 recognizes a carbohydrate epitope in the inner core region of LPS that is shared by all strains of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica and is able to neutralize their endotoxic activity in vitro and in vivo. Immunization of mice with mAb WN1 222-5 yielded several anti-idiotypic mAbs one of which (mAb S81-19) competitively inhibited binding of mAb WN1 222-5 to E. coli and Salmonella LPS. After immunization of rabbits with mAb S81-19, the serological responses towards LPS were characterized at intervals over two years. Whereas the serological response against the anti-idiotype developed as expected, the anti-anti-idiotypic response against LPS developed slowly and antibodies appeared after 200 d that bound to E. coli LPS of the R3 core-type and neutralized its TNF-α inducing capacity for human peripheral mononuclear cells. We describe the generation of a novel anti-idiotypic antibody that can induce LPS core-reactive antibodies upon immunization in rabbits and show that it is possible, in principle, to obtain LPS neutralizing antibodies by anti-idiotypic immunization against the mAb WN1 222-5. The mimicked epitope likely shares common determinants with the WN1 222-5 epitope, yet differences with respect to either affinity or specificity do exist, as binding to smaller oligosaccharides of the inner core was not observed.
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- Lore Brade
- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany
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Knirel YA, Kondakova AN, Vinogradov E, Lindner B, Perepelov AV, Shashkov AS. Lipopolysaccharide core structures and their correlation with genetic groupings of Shigella strains. A novel core variant in Shigella boydii type 16. Glycobiology 2011; 21:1362-72. [PMID: 21752864 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwr088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bacteria Shigella, the cause of shigellosis, evolved from the intestinal bacteria Escherichia coli. Based on structurally diverse O-specific polysaccharide chains of the lipopolysaccharides (LPSs; O-antigens), three from four Shigella species are subdivided into multiple serotypes. The central oligosaccharide of the LPS called core is usually conserved within genus but five core types called R1-R4 and K-12 have been recognized in E. coli. Structural data on the Shigella core are limited to S. sonnei, S. flexneri and one S. dysenteriae strain, which all share E. coli core types. In this work, we elucidated the core structure in 14 reference strains of S. dysenteriae and S. boydii. Core oligosaccharides were obtained by mild acid hydrolysis of the LPSs and studied using sugar analysis, high-resolution mass spectrometry and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. The R1, R3 and R4 E. coli core types were identified in 8, 3 and 2 Shigella strains, respectively. A novel core variant found in S. boydii type 16 differs from the R3 core in the lack of GlcNAc and the presence of a D-glycero-D-manno-heptose disaccharide extension. In addition, the structure of an oligosaccharide consisting of the core and one O-antigen repeat was determined in S. dysenteriae type 8. A clear correlation of the core type was observed with genetic grouping of Shigella strains but not with their traditional division to four species. This finding supports a notion on the existing Shigella species as invalid taxa and a suggestion of multiple independent origins of Shigella from E. coli clones.
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- Yuriy A Knirel
- ND Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Prospekt 47, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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The lipopolysaccharide of the mastitis isolate Escherichia coli strain 1303 comprises a novel O-antigen and the rare K-12 core type. Microbiology (Reading) 2011; 157:1750-1760. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.046912-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mastitis represents one of the most significant health problems of dairy herds. The two major causative agents of this disease are Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Of the first, its lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is thought to play a prominent role during infection. Here, we report the O-antigen (OPS, O-specific polysaccharide) structure of the LPS from bovine mastitis isolate E. coli 1303. The structure was determined utilizing chemical analyses, mass spectrometry, and 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy methods. The O-repeating unit was characterized as -[→4)-β-d-Quip3NAc-(1→3)-α-l-Fucp2OAc-(1→4)-β-d-Galp-(1→3)-α-d-GalpNAc-(1→]- in which the O-acetyl substitution was non-stoichiometric. The nucleotide sequence of the O-antigen gene cluster of E. coli 1303 was also determined. This cluster, located between the gnd and galF genes, contains 13 putative open reading frames, most of which represent unknown nucleotide sequences that have not been described before. The O-antigen of E. coli 1303 was shown to substitute O-7 of the terminal ld-heptose of the K-12 core oligosaccharide. Interestingly, the non-OPS-substituted core oligosaccharide represented a truncated version of the K-12 outer core – namely terminal ld-heptose and glucose were missing; however, it possessed a third Kdo residue in the inner core. On the basis of structural and genetic data we show that the mastitis isolate E. coli 1303 represents a new serotype and possesses the K-12 core type, which is rather uncommon among human and bovine isolates.
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Kabanov DS, Prokhorenko IR. Structural analysis of lipopolysaccharides from Gram-negative bacteria. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2010; 75:383-404. [PMID: 20618127 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297910040012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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This review covers data on composition and structure of lipid A, core, and O-polysaccharide of the known lipopolysaccharides from Gram-negative bacteria. The relationship between the structure and biological activity of lipid A is discussed. The data on roles of core and O-polysaccharide in biological activities of lipopolysaccharides are presented. The structural homology of some oligosaccharide sequences of lipopolysaccharides to gangliosides of human cell membranes is considered.
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- D S Kabanov
- Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia.
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Kubler-Kielb J, Lai WT, Schneerson R, Vinogradov E. The structure of the Escherichia coli O148 lipopolysaccharide core region and its linkage to the O-specific polysaccharide. Carbohydr Res 2010; 346:150-2. [PMID: 21074753 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2010.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2010] [Revised: 10/06/2010] [Accepted: 10/10/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Recently it was demonstrated that Shigella dysenteriae type 1, a cause of severe dysentery epidemics, gained its O-specific polysaccharide (O-SP) from Escherichia coli O148. The O-SPs of these bacteria differ only by a galactose residue in the repeat unit of S. dysenteriae type 1 in place of a glucose residue in E. coli O148. Herein, we analyzed the core structure and its linkage to the O-SP in E. coli O148 LPS. Both were found to be identical to those of S. dysenteriae type 1 structures, further supporting the relatedness of these two bacteria. The following structure of the core with one repeat unit of the O-SP has been assigned (all have d-configuration except l-Rha):
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- Joanna Kubler-Kielb
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Endotoxin refers lipopolysaccharide that constitutes the outer leaflet of the outer membrane of most Gram-negative bacteria. Lipopolysaccharide is comprised of a hydrophilic polysaccharide and a hydrophobic component known as lipid A which is responsible for the major bioactivity of endotoxin. Lipopolysaccharide can be recognized by immune cells as a pathogen-associated molecule through Toll-like receptor 4. Most enzymes and genes related to the biosynthesis and export of lipopolysaccharide have been identified in Escherichia coli, and they are shared by most Gram-negative bacteria based on available genetic information. However, the detailed structure of lipopolysaccharide differs from one bacterium to another, suggesting that additional enzymes that can modify the basic structure of lipopolysaccharide exist in bacteria, especially some pathogens. These structural modifications of lipopolysaccharide are sometimes tightly regulated. They are not required for survival but closely related to the virulence of bacteria. In this chapter we will focus on the mechanism of biosynthesis and export of lipopolysaccharide in bacteria.
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- Xiaoyuan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, China.
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Kondakova AN, Vinogradov EV, Shekht ME, Markina AA, Lindner B, L'vov VL, Aparin PG, Knirel' IA. [Structure of the oligosaccharide region (core) of the lipopolysaccharides of Shigella flexneri types 2a and 5b]. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2010; 36:429-32. [PMID: 20644600 DOI: 10.1134/s1068162010030179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The full structure of the lipopolysaccharide core of bacteria Shigella flexneri types 2a and 5b, the causative agents of bacillary dysentery (shigellosis), was established by chemical methods, high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. The structure of the O-antigen repeating unit and the configuration and position of the linkage between the O-antigen and the core were determined in the lipopolysaccharide of S. flexneri type 2a.
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Kubler-Kielb J, Vinogradov E, Mocca C, Pozsgay V, Coxon B, Robbins JB, Schneerson R. Immunochemical studies of Shigella flexneri 2a and 6, and Shigella dysenteriae type 1 O-specific polysaccharide-core fragments and their protein conjugates as vaccine candidates. Carbohydr Res 2010; 345:1600-8. [PMID: 20542498 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2010.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2010] [Revised: 04/28/2010] [Accepted: 05/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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There is no licensed vaccine for the prevention of shigellosis. Our approach to the development of a Shigella vaccines is based on inducing serum IgG antibodies to the O-specific polysaccharide (O-SP) domain of their lipopolysaccharides (LPS). We have shown that low molecular mass O-SP-core (O-SPC) fragments isolated from Shigella sonnei LPS conjugated to proteins induced significantly higher antibody levels in mice than the full length O-SP conjugates. This finding is now extended to the O-SPC of Shigella flexneri 2a and 6, and Shigella dysenteriae type 1. The structures of O-SPC, containing core plus 1-4 O-SP repeat units (RUs), were analyzed by NMR and mass spectroscopy. The first RUs attached to the cores of S. flexneri 2a and 6 LPS were different from the following RUs in their O-acetylation and/or glucosylation. Conjugates of core plus more than 1 RU were necessary to induce LPS antibodies in mice. The resulting antibody levels were comparable to those induced by the full length O-SP conjugates. In S. dysenteriae type 1, the first RU was identical to the following RUs, with the exception that the GlcNAc was bound to the core in the beta-configuration, while in all other RUs the GlcNAc was present in the alpha-configuration. In spite of this difference, conjugates of S. dysenteriae type 1 core with 1, 2, or 3 RUs induced LPS antibodies in mice with levels statistically higher than those of the full size O-SP conjugates. O-SPC conjugates are easy to prepare, characterize, and standardize, and their clinical evaluation is planned.
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- Joanna Kubler-Kielb
- The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Lipopolysaccharide: Biosynthetic pathway and structure modification. Prog Lipid Res 2009; 49:97-107. [PMID: 19815028 DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2009.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 287] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2009] [Revised: 06/16/2009] [Accepted: 06/17/2009] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Lipopolysaccharide that constitutes the outer leaflet of the outer membrane of most Gram-negative bacteria is referred to as an endotoxin. It is comprised of a hydrophilic polysaccharide and a hydrophobic component referred to as lipid A. Lipid A is responsible for the major bioactivity of endotoxin, and is recognized by immune cells as a pathogen-associated molecule. Most enzymes and genes coding for proteins responsible for the biosynthesis and export of lipopolysaccharide in Escherichia coli have been identified, and they are shared by most Gram-negative bacteria based on genetic information. The detailed structure of lipopolysaccharide differs from one bacterium to another, consistent with the recent discovery of additional enzymes and gene products that can modify the basic structure of lipopolysaccharide in some bacteria, especially pathogens. These modifications are not required for survival, but are tightly regulated in the cell and closely related to the virulence of bacteria. In this review we discuss recent studies of the biosynthesis and export of lipopolysaccharide, and the relationship between the structure of lipopolysaccharide and the virulence of bacteria.
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Pieretti G, Corsaro MM, Lanzetta R, Parrilli M, Vilches S, Merino S, Tomás JM. Structure of the Core Region from the Lipopolysaccharide ofPlesiomonas shigelloidesStrain 302-73 (Serotype O1). European J Org Chem 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200801200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Chandan V, Logan SM, Harrison BA, Vinogradov E, Aubry A, Stupak J, Li J, Altman E. Helicobacter pylori cagA and iceA genotypes status and risk of peptic ulcer in Saudi patients. Saudi Med J 2007; 85:582-90. [PMID: 17901900 DOI: 10.1139/o07-056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of cagA+ and iceA genotypes among Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) isolates from a group of Saudi patients with gastric complaints, and to find out any significant correlation between these strains and severe gastric clinical outcomes such as peptic ulcer and gastric cancer in Saudi population. METHODS A total of 1104 gastric biopsies from 368 patients who presented with symptoms suggestive of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, or gastric carcinoma were taken from the main hospitals in the Western region of Saudi Arabia from July 2004 to July 2005. We cultured the samples for H. pylori and a polymerase chain reaction was carried out to check for the presence or absence of cagA gene and the status of iceA genotypes. RESULTS Among the 368 suspected patients to be infected with H. pylori by means of clinical features and endoscopic findings; 103 (28%) were positive using culture technique. The relation of the presence of cagA and the development of cases to gastritis and ulcer was statistically significant (p=0.0001). Furthermore, this study revealed that 100% of ulcer cases were infected with iceA1 with a statistically significant correlation (p=0.0001), while 94.6% of gastritis and 90.9% of normal were infected with iceA2 (p=0.0001). Moreover cagA+/iceA1 combined genotypes was statistically correlated with peptic ulcer (100%) but not cagA-/iceA1 (0%; p=0.0001). CONCLUSION Certain H. pylori genotypes were more virulent than others. Multiple clinical implications based on these finding might be studied further.
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- Vandana Chandan
- Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6, Canada
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Leipold MD, Vinogradov E, Whitfield C. Glycosyltransferases involved in biosynthesis of the outer core region of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharides exhibit broader substrate specificities than is predicted from lipopolysaccharide structures. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:26786-26792. [PMID: 17631498 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m704131200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The waaJ, waaT, and waaR genes encode alpha-1,2-glycosyltransferases involved in synthesis of the outer core region of the lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia coli. They belong to the glycosyltransferase CAZy family 8, characterized by the GT-A fold, DXD motifs, and by retention of configuration at the anomeric carbon of the donor sugar. Each enzyme adds a hexose residue at the same stage of core oligosaccharide backbone extension. However, they differ in the epimers for their donor nucleotide sugars, and in their acceptor residues. WaaJ is a UDP-glucose: (galactosyl) LPS alpha-1,2-glucosyltransferase, whereas WaaR and WaaT have UDP-glucose:(glucosyl) LPS alpha-1,2-glucosyltransferase and UDP-galactose:(glucosyl) LPS alpha-1,2-galactosyltransferase activities, respectively. The objective of this work was to examine their ability to utilize alternate donors and acceptors. When expressed in the heterologous host, each enzyme was able to extend the alternate LPS acceptor in vivo but they retained their natural donor specificity. In vitro assays were then performed to test the effect of substituting the epimeric donor sugar on incorporation efficiency with the natural LPS acceptor of the enzyme. Although each enzyme could utilize the alternate donor epimer, activity was compromised because of significant decreases in k(cat) and corresponding increases in K(m)(donor). Finally, in vitro assays were performed to probe acceptor preference in the absence of the cellular machinery. The results were enzyme-dependent: while an alternate acceptor had no significant effect on the kinetic behavior of His(6)-WaaT, His(6)-WaaJ showed a significantly decreased k(cat) and increased K(m)(acceptor). These results illustrate the differences in behavior between closely related glycosyltransferase enzymes involved in the synthesis of similar glycoconjugates and have implications for glycoengineering applications.
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- Michael D Leipold
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
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Holst O. The structures of core regions from enterobacterial lipopolysaccharides â an update. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2007; 271:3-11. [PMID: 17403049 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00708.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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To the major virulence factors of Gram-negative bacteria belong the lipopolysaccharides (endotoxins), which are very well characterized for their immunological, pharmacological and pathophysiological effects displayed in eucaryotic cells and organisms. In general, these amphiphilic lipopolysaccharides comprise three regions, which can be differentiated by their structures, function, genetics and biosynthesis: lipid A, the core region and a polysaccharide portion, which may be the O-specific polysaccharide, Enterobacterial Common Antigen (ECA) or a capsular polysaccharide. In the past, much emphasis has been laid on the elucidation of the structure-function relation. The lipid A was proven to represent the toxic principle of endotoxic active lipopolysaccharides, however, its toxicity depends not only on its structure but also on that of the core region, which is covalently linked to lipid A. Thus, and since the core region possesses immunogenic properties, complete structural analyses of lipopolysaccharides core regions and of structure-function relation are highly important for a better understanding of lipopolysaccharides action. To date, quite a number of core structures from lipopolysaccharides of various Gram-negative bacteria have been published and summarized in several overviews. This short review adds to this knowledge those structures of enterobacterial lipopolysaccharides that were published between January 2002 and October 2006.
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- Otto Holst
- Division of Structural Biochemistry, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany.
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Lukasiewicz J, Niedziela T, Jachymek W, Kenne L, Lugowski C. Structure of the lipid A-inner core region and biological activity of Plesiomonas shigelloides O54 (strain CNCTC 113/92) lipopolysaccharide. Glycobiology 2006; 16:538-50. [PMID: 16490765 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwj094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Plesiomonas shigelloides is a Gram-negative rod associated with episodes of intestinal infections and outbreaks of diarrhea in humans. The extraintestinal infections caused by this bacterium, for example, endopthalmitis, meningitidis, bacteremia, and septicemia, usually have gastrointestinal origin and serious course. The lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin) as virulence factor is important in enteropathogenicity of this bacterium. LPSs of P. shigelloides and especially their lipid A part, that is, the immunomodulatory center of LPS, have not been extensively investigated. The structure of P. shigelloides O54 lipid A was determined by chemical analysis combined with MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and the intact Kdo-containing core region was investigated by NMR spectroscopy on deacylated LPS. Products from alkaline deacylation of LPS, containing 4-substituted uronic acids, are usually very complex and difficult to separate. Since Kdo residues, like sialic acids, form complexes with serotonin, we used immobilized serotonin for one-step isolation of oligosaccharide containing the intact Kdo region from the reaction mixture by affinity chromatography. The major form of lipid A was built of beta-d-GlcpN4PPEtn-(1-->6)-alpha-d-GlcpN1P disaccharide substituted with 14:0(3-OH), 12:0(3-OH), 14:0(3-O-14:0), and 12:0(3-O-12:0) acyl groups at N-2, O-3, N-2', and O-3', respectively. This is a novel structure among known lipid A molecules. Analysis of intact Kdo-lipid A region, lipid A and its linkage with the core oligosaccharide completes the structural investigation of P. shigelloides O54 LPS, resolving the entire molecule. Biological activities and observed discrepancy between in vitro and in vivo activity of P. shigelloides and Escherichia coli LPS are discussed.
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- Jolanta Lukasiewicz
- Department of Immunochemistry, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, R. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland
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Yoon JW, Lim JY, Park YH, Hovde CJ. Involvement of the Escherichia coli O157:H7(pO157) ecf operon and lipid A myristoyl transferase activity in bacterial survival in the bovine gastrointestinal tract and bacterial persistence in farm water troughs. Infect Immun 2005; 73:2367-78. [PMID: 15784583 PMCID: PMC1087426 DOI: 10.1128/iai.73.4.2367-2378.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an important food-borne pathogen that causes hemorrhagic colitis and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome in humans. Recently, we reported that the pO157 ecf (E. coli attaching and effacing gene-positive conserved fragments) operon is thermoregulated by an intrinsically curved DNA and contains the genes for bacterial surface-associated proteins, including a second copy of lipid A myristoyl transferase, whose chromosomal copy is the lpxM gene product. E. coli O157:H7 survives and persists well in diverse environments from the human and bovine gastrointestinal tracts (GIT) to nutrient-dilute farm water troughs. Transcriptional regulation of the ecf operon by intrinsic DNA curvature and the genetic redundancy of lpxM that is associated with lipid A modification led us to hypothesize that the pO157 ecf operon and lpxM are associated with bacterial survival and persistence in various in vivo and ex vivo environments by optimizing bacterial membrane structure and/or integrity. To test this hypothesis, three isogenic ecf operon and/or lpxM deletion mutants of E. coli O157:H7 ATCC 43894 were constructed and analyzed in vitro and in vivo. The results showed that a double mutant carrying deletions in the ecf and lpxM genes had an altered lipid A structure and membrane fatty acid composition, did not survive passage through the bovine GIT, did not persist well in farm water troughs, had increased susceptibility to a broad spectrum of antibiotics and detergents, and had impaired motility. Electron microscopic analyses showed gross changes in bacterial membrane structure.
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- Jang W Yoon
- Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3052, USA
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Kaniuk NA, Vinogradov E, Li J, Monteiro MA, Whitfield C. Chromosomal and plasmid-encoded enzymes are required for assembly of the R3-type core oligosaccharide in the lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia coli O157:H7. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:31237-50. [PMID: 15155763 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m401879200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The type R3 core oligosaccharide predominates in the lipopolysaccharides from enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli isolates including O157:H7. The R3 core biosynthesis (waa) genetic locus contains two genes, waaD and waaJ, that are predicted to encode glycosyltransferases involved in completion of the outer core. Through determination of the structures of the lipopolysaccharide core in precise mutants and biochemical analyses of enzyme activities, WaaJ was shown to be a UDP-glucose:(galactosyl) lipopolysaccharide alpha-1,2-glucosyltransferase, and WaaD was shown to be a UDP-glucose:(glucosyl)lipopolysaccharide alpha-1,2-glucosyltransferase. The residue added by WaaJ was identified as the ligation site for O polysaccharide, and this was confirmed by determination of the structure of the linkage region in serotype O157 lipopolysaccharide. The initial O157 repeat unit begins with an N-acetylgalactosamine residue in a beta-anomeric configuration, whereas the biological repeat unit for O157 contains alpha-linked N-acetylgalactosamine residues. With the characterization of WaaJ and WaaD, the activities of all of the enzymes encoded by the R3 waa locus are either known or predicted from homology data with a high level of confidence. However, when core oligosaccharide structure is considered, the origin of an additional alpha-1,3-linked N-acetylglucosamine residue in the outer core is unknown. The gene responsible for a nonstoichiometric alpha-1,7-linked N-acetylglucosamine substituent in the heptose (inner core) region was identified on the large virulence plasmids of E. coli O157 and Shigella flexneri serotype 2a. This is the first plasmid-encoded core oligosaccharide biosynthesis enzyme reported in E. coli.
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- Natalia A Kaniuk
- Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Müller-Loennies S, Lindner B, Brade H. Structural analysis of oligosaccharides from lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Escherichia coli K12 strain W3100 reveals a link between inner and outer core LPS biosynthesis. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:34090-101. [PMID: 12819207 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m303985200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Escherichia coli K12 W3100 is known to contain several glycoforms, and the basic structure has been investigated previously by methylation analyses (Holst, O. (1999) in Endotoxin in Health and Disease (Brade, H., Opal, S. M., Vogel, S. N., and Morrison, D., eds) pp. 115-154; Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York). In order to reveal dependences of gene activity and LPS structure, we have now determined the composition of de-O-acylated LPS by electrospray ionization-Fourier transform ion cyclotron-mass spectrometry (ESI-FT-MS) and identified 11 different LPS molecules. We have isolated the major glycoforms after de-O- and de-N-acylation and obtained four oligosaccharides that differed in their carbohydrate structure and phosphate substitution. The main oligosaccharide accounted for approximately 70% of the total and had a molecular mass of 2516 Da according to ESI-FT-MS. The dodecasaccharide structure (glycoform I) as determined by NMR was consistent with MS and compositional analysis. One minor oligosaccharide (5%) of the same carbohydrate structure did not contain the 4'-phosphate of the lipid A. Two oligosaccharides contained the same phosphate substitution but differed in their carbohydrate structure, one (5%) which contained an additional beta-D-GlcN in 1-->7 linkage on a terminal heptose residue (glycoform II) which was N-acetylated in LPS. A minor amount of a molecule lacking the terminal L-alpha-D-Hep in the outer core but otherwise identical to the major oligosaccharide (glycoform III) could only be identified by ESI-FT-MS of the de-O-acylated LPS. The other oligosaccharide (20%) contained an alpha-Kdo-(2-->4)-[alpha-l-Rha-(1-->5)]-alpha-Kdo-(2-->4)-alpha-Kdo branched tetrasaccharide connected to the lipid A (glycoform IV). This novel inner core structure was accompanied by a truncation of the outer core in which the terminal disaccharide L-alpha-D-Hep-(1-->6)-alpha-D-Glc was missing. The latter structure was identified for the first time in LPS and revealed that changes in the inner core structure may be accompanied by structural changes in the outer core.
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- Sven Müller-Loennies
- Borstel Research Center, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, D-23845 Borstel, Germany.
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Muller-Loennies S, Brade L, MacKenzie CR, Di Padova FE, Brade H. Identification of a cross-reactive epitope widely present in lipopolysaccharide from enterobacteria and recognized by the cross-protective monoclonal antibody WN1 222-5. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:25618-27. [PMID: 12716894 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m302904200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Septic shock due to infections with Gram-negative bacteria is a severe disease with a high mortality rate. We report the identification of the antigenic determinants of an epitope that is present in enterobacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and recognized by a cross-reactive monoclonal antibody (mAb WN1 222-5) regarded as a potential means of treatment. Using whole LPS and a panel of neoglycoconjugates containing purified LPS oligosaccharides obtained from Escherichia coli core types R1, R2, R3, and R4, Salmonella enterica, and the mutant strain E. coli J-5, we showed that mAb WN1 222-5 binds to the distal part of the inner core region and recognizes the structural element R1-alpha-d-Glcp-(1-->3)-[l-alpha-d-Hepp-(1-->7)]-l-alpha-d-Hepp 4P-(1-->3)-R2 (where R1 represents additional sugars of the outer core and R2 represents additional sugars of the inner core), which is common to LPS from all E. coli, Salmonella, and Shigella. WN1 222-5 binds poorly to molecules that lack the side chain heptose or lack phosphate at the branched heptose. Also molecules that are substituted with GlcpN at the side chain heptose are poorly bound. Thus, the side chain heptose and the 4-phosphate on the branched heptose are main determinants of the epitope. We have determined the binding kinetics and affinities (KD values) of the monovalent interaction of E. coli core oligosaccharides with WN1 222-5 by surface plasmon resonance and isothermal titration microcalorimetry. Affinity constants (KD values) determined by SPR were in the range of 3.6 x 10-5 to 3.2 x 10-8 m, with the highest affinity being observed for the core oligosaccharide from E. coli F576 (R2 core type) and the lowest KD values for those from E. coli J-5. Affinities of E. coli R1, R3, and R4 oligosaccharides were 5-10-fold lower, and values from the E. coli J-5 mutant were 29-fold lower than the R2 core oligosaccharide. Thus, the outer core sugars had a positive effect on binding.
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- Sven Muller-Loennies
- Research Center Borstel, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Parkallee 22, D-23845 Borstel, Germany.
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Lukasiewicz J, Jachymek W, Niedziela T, Dzieciatkowska M, Lakomska J, Miedzybrodzki R, Fortuna W, Szymaniec S, Misiuk-Hojlo M, Lugowski C. Serological characterization of anti-endotoxin serum directed against the conjugate of oligosaccharide core of Escherichia coli type R4 with tetanus toxoid. FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 2003; 37:59-67. [PMID: 12770761 DOI: 10.1016/s0928-8244(03)00104-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The covalent conjugate of oligosaccharide core of Escherichia coli type R4 with tetanus toxoid was prepared using reaction of reductive amination. The neoglycoconjugate was a good immunogen in rabbits yielding a high level of anti-lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antibodies of the IgG class. It was found that antiserum was able to react with the smooth LPS molecules of identical (R4) or related (R1) core type. The reactions were shown in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and the immunoblotting test. Flow cytometry showed that anti-core antibodies reacted with LPS present on intact, live, smooth bacteria labelling more than 90% of cells. The anti-OS R4-TT serum used for in vitro studies showed high endotoxin neutralization activity. The serum inhibited endotoxin-induced tumor necrosis factor alpha and nitric oxide synthesis by the J-774A.1 cell line and attenuated pulmonary retention of YAC-1 cells.
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- Jolanta Lukasiewicz
- Department of Immunochemistry, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland.
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