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To H, Teshima K, Kon M, Yasuda S, Akaike Y, Shibuya K, Nagai S, Sasakawa C. Characterization of nontypeable Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae isolates. J Vet Diagn Invest 2020; 32:581-584. [PMID: 32517629 DOI: 10.1177/1040638720931469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Two Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae isolates from clinical cases of porcine pleuropneumonia in Japan were positive in the capsular serovar 15-specific PCR assay, but nontypeable (NT) in the agar gel precipitation (AGP) test. Nucleotide sequence analysis of gene clusters involved in the biosynthesis of capsular polysaccharide (CPS) and lipopolysaccharide O-polysaccharide (O-PS) revealed that both clusters contained transposable element ISApl1 of A. pleuropneumoniae belonging to the IS30 family. Immunoblot analysis revealed that these 2 isolates could not produce O-PS. We conclude that the ISApl1 of A. pleuropneumoniae can interfere in the biosynthesis of both CPS and O-PS.
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- Ho To
- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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- Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo, Japan (To, Teshima, Kon, Yasuda, Akaike, Shibuya, Nagai, Sasakawa).,Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Sasakawa)
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Development of a molecular serotyping scheme and a multiplexed luminex-based array for Providencia. J Microbiol Methods 2018; 153:14-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2018.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2018] [Revised: 08/11/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Naumenko OI, Zheng H, Xiong Y, Senchenkova SN, Wang H, Shashkov AS, Li Q, Wang J, Knirel YA. Studies on the O-polysaccharide of Escherichia albertii O2 characterized by non-stoichiometric O-acetylation and non-stoichiometric side-chain l-fucosylation. Carbohydr Res 2018; 461:80-84. [PMID: 29609101 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2018.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2017] [Revised: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 02/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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An O-polysaccharide was isolated from the lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia albertii O2 and studied by chemical methods and 1D and 2D 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. The following structure of the O-polysaccharide was established: . The O-polysaccharide is characterized by masked regularity owing to a non-stoichiometric O-acetylation of an l-fucose residue in the main chain and a non-stoichiometric side-chain l-fucosylation of a β-GlcNAc residue. A regular linear polysaccharide was obtained by sequential Smith degradation and alkaline O-deacetylation of the O-polysaccharide. The content of the O-antigen gene cluster of E. albertii O2 was found to be essentially consistent with the O-polysaccharide structure established.
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- Olesya I Naumenko
- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D. I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russia
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China; Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
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- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Zigong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zigong, Sichuan Province, China
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- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Zigong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zigong, Sichuan Province, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China
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- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Mi X, Lou Q, Fan W, Zhuang L, Yang Y. Gold(I)-catalyzed synthesis of β-Kdo glycosides using Kdo ortho-hexynylbenzoate as donor. Carbohydr Res 2017; 448:161-165. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2017.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Revised: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Mazur M, Barycza B, Andriamboavonjy H, Lavoie S, Tamigney Kenfack M, Laroussarie A, Blériot Y, Gauthier C. 4′-Methoxyphenacyl-Assisted Synthesis of β-Kdo Glycosides. J Org Chem 2016; 81:10585-10599. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b01431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Marcelina Mazur
- Institut
de Chimie IC2MP, CNRS-UMR 7285, Équipe Synthèse Organique, Université de Poitiers, 4 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
- Department
of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Norwida
25, 50-375 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Institut
de Chimie IC2MP, CNRS-UMR 7285, Équipe Synthèse Organique, Université de Poitiers, 4 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
- Department
of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Norwida
25, 50-375 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Institut
de Chimie IC2MP, CNRS-UMR 7285, Équipe Synthèse Organique, Université de Poitiers, 4 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire
LASEVE, Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 boul. de l’Université, Chicoutimi (Québec), Canada G7H 2B1
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- Institut
de Chimie IC2MP, CNRS-UMR 7285, Équipe Synthèse Organique, Université de Poitiers, 4 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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- Institut
de Chimie IC2MP, CNRS-UMR 7285, Équipe Synthèse Organique, Université de Poitiers, 4 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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- Institut
de Chimie IC2MP, CNRS-UMR 7285, Équipe Synthèse Organique, Université de Poitiers, 4 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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- Institut
de Chimie IC2MP, CNRS-UMR 7285, Équipe Synthèse Organique, Université de Poitiers, 4 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
- Laboratoire
LASEVE, Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 boul. de l’Université, Chicoutimi (Québec), Canada G7H 2B1
- INRS-Institut
Armand-Frappier, Université du Québec, 531 boul. des Prairies, Laval (Québec), Canada H7V 1B7
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Bacterial β-Kdo glycosyltransferases represent a new glycosyltransferase family (GT99). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E3120-9. [PMID: 27199480 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1603146113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Kdo (3-deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid) is an eight-carbon sugar mostly confined to Gram-negative bacteria. It is often involved in attaching surface polysaccharides to their lipid anchors. α-Kdo provides a bridge between lipid A and the core oligosaccharide in all bacterial LPSs, whereas an oligosaccharide of β-Kdo residues links "group 2" capsular polysaccharides to (lyso)phosphatidylglycerol. β-Kdo is also found in a small number of other bacterial polysaccharides. The structure and function of the prototypical cytidine monophosphate-Kdo-dependent α-Kdo glycosyltransferase from LPS assembly is well characterized. In contrast, the β-Kdo counterparts were not identified as glycosyltransferase enzymes by bioinformatics tools and were not represented among the 98 currently recognized glycosyltransferase families in the Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes database. We report the crystallographic structure and function of a prototype β-Kdo GT from WbbB, a modular protein participating in LPS O-antigen synthesis in Raoultella terrigena The β-Kdo GT has dual Rossmann-fold motifs typical of GT-B enzymes, but extensive deletions, insertions, and rearrangements result in a unique architecture that makes it a prototype for a new GT family (GT99). The cytidine monophosphate-binding site in the C-terminal α/β domain closely resembles the corresponding site in bacterial sialyltransferases, suggesting an evolutionary connection that is not immediately evident from the overall fold or sequence similarities.
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Vinnitskiy DZ, Ustyuzhanina NE, Nifantiev NE. Natural bacterial and plant biomolecules bearing α-d-glucuronic acid residues. Russ Chem Bull 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s11172-015-1010-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Vinogradov E, Nash JHE, Foote S, Young NM. The structure of the Morganella morganii lipopolysaccharide core region and identification of its genomic loci. Carbohydr Res 2015; 402:232-5. [PMID: 25498024 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2014.10.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2014] [Revised: 10/28/2014] [Accepted: 10/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The core region of the lipopolysaccharide of Morganella morganii serotype O:1ab was obtained by hydrolysis of the LPS and studied by 2D NMR, ESI MS, and chemical methods. Its structure was highly homologous to those from the two major members of the same Proteeae tribe, Proteus mirabilis and Providencia alcalifaciens, and analysis of the M. morganii genome disclosed that the loci for its outer core, lipid A and Ara4N moieties are similarly conserved.
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- Evgeny Vinogradov
- Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada.
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- Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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Structure and gene cluster organization of the O-antigen of Providencia alcalifaciens O45:H25. Carbohydr Res 2014; 398:72-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2014.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2014] [Accepted: 07/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Olaitan AO, Diene SM, Gupta SK, Adler A, Assous MV, Rolain JM. Genome analysis of NDM-1 producing Morganella morganii clinical isolate. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2014; 12:1297-305. [PMID: 25081858 DOI: 10.1586/14787210.2014.944504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To analyze the resistome and virulence genes of Morganella morganii F675, a multidrug-resistant clinical isolate using whole genome sequencing (WGS). METHODS M. morganii F675 was isolated from a patient from Jerusalem, Israel. WGS was performed using both 454 and SOLiD sequencing technologies. Analyses of the bacterial resistome and other virulence genes were performed in addition to comparison with other available M. morganii genomes. RESULTS The assembled sequence had a genome size of 4,127,528 bp with G+C content of 51%. The resistome consisted of 13 antibiotic resistance genes including blaNDM-1 located in a plasmid likely acquired from Acinetobacter spp. Moreover, we characterized for the first time the whole lipid A biosynthesis pathway in this species along with the O-antigen gene cluster, the urease gene cluster and several other virulence genes. CONCLUSION The WGS analysis of this pathogen further provides insight into its pathogenicity and resistance to antibiotics.
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- Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitan
- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE) CNRS-IRD UMR 6236, Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France
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Ovchinnikova OG, Rozalski A, Liu B, Knirel YA. O-antigens of bacteria of the genus providencia: structure, serology, genetics, and biosynthesis. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2014; 78:798-817. [PMID: 24010842 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297913070110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The genus Providencia consists of eight species of opportunistic pathogenic enterobacteria that can cause enteric diseases and urinary tract infections. The existing combined serological classification scheme of three species, P. alcalifaciens, P. stuartii, and P. rustigianii, is based on the specificity of O-antigens (O-polysaccharides) and comprises 63 O-serogroups. Differences between serogroups are related to polymorphism at a specific genome locus, the O-antigen gene cluster, responsible for O-antigen biosynthesis. This review presents data on structures of 36 O-antigens of Providencia, many of which contain unusual monosaccharides and non-carbohydrate components. The structural data correlate with the immunospecificity of the O-antigens and enable substantiation on a molecular level of serological relationships within the genus Providencia and between strains of Providencia and bacteria of the genera Proteus, Escherichia, and Salmonella. Peculiar features of the O-antigen gene cluster organization in 10 Providencia serogroups and biosynthetic pathways of nucleotide precursors of specific monosaccharide components of the O-antigens also are discussed.
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- O G Ovchinnikova
- Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia.
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KpsC and KpsS are retaining 3-deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid (Kdo) transferases involved in synthesis of bacterial capsules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:20753-8. [PMID: 24302764 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312637110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Capsular polysaccharides (CPSs) are high-molecular-mass cell-surface polysaccharides, that act as important virulence factors for many pathogenic bacteria. Several clinically important Gram-negative pathogens share similar systems for CPS biosynthesis and export; examples include Escherichia coli, Campylobacter jejuni, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Pasteurella multocida. Each CPS contains a serotype-specific repeat-unit structure, but the glycans all possess a lipid moiety at their reducing termini. In E. coli and N. meningitidis, the predominant lipid is a lysophosphatidylglycerol moiety that is attached to the repeat-unit domain of the CPS via multiple residues of 3-deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid (Kdo), referred to as a poly-Kdo linker. The Kdo residues are β-linked, suggesting that they are synthesized by retaining glycosyltransferases. To date, the only characterized Kdo transferases are the inverting enzymes that catalyze the α-linkages found in lipopolysaccharide. Here, we identify two conserved proteins from CPS assembly systems, KpsC and KpsS, as the β-Kdo-transferases and demonstrate in vitro reconstitution of poly-Kdo linker assembly on a fluorescent phosphatidylglycerol acceptor. KpsS adds the first Kdo residue, and this reaction product is then extended by KpsC. Cross-complementation experiments demonstrate that the E. coli and N. meningitidis protein homologs are functionally conserved.
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Ovchinnikova OG, Liu B, Guo D, Kocharova NA, Bialczak-Kokot M, Shashkov AS, Feng L, Rozalski A, Wang L, Knirel YA. Structural, serological, and genetic characterization of the O-antigen of Providencia alcalifaciens O40. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 66:382-92. [PMID: 23163869 DOI: 10.1111/1574-695x.12002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2012] [Revised: 07/05/2012] [Accepted: 08/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The O-polysaccharide chain of the lipopolysaccharide (O-antigen) on the bacterial cell surface is one of the most structurally variable cell components and serves as a basis for serotyping of Gram-negative bacteria, including human opportunistic pathogens of the genus Providencia. In this work, the O-antigen of Providencia alcalifaciens O40 was obtained by mild acid degradation of the isolated lipopolysaccharide and studied by chemical methods and high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. The following structure of the O-polysaccharide was established: →4)-β-D-Quip3NFo-(1→3)-α-D-Galp-(1→3)-β-D-GlcpA-(1→3)-β-D-GalpNAc-(1→, where GlcA stands for glucuronic acid and Qui3NFo for 3,6-dideoxy-3-formamidoglucose. The O40-antigen was found to be structurally and serologically related to the O-antigens of P. alcalifaciens O5 and Providencia stuartii O18. The O40-antigen gene cluster between cpxA and yibK was sequenced, and the gene functions were predicted in silico. In agreement with the O-polysaccharide structure established, the genes for the synthesis of dTDP-D-Qui3NFo, UDP-D-Gal, UDP-D-GlcA, and UDP-D-GalNAc as well as those encoding three glycosyltransferases, flippase (Wzx), and O-antigen polymerase (Wzy) were recognized. In addition, homologues of wza, wzb, and wzc genes, which are required for the surface expression of capsular polysaccharides, were found within the gene cluster, suggesting that the O-polysaccharide studied is a part of the capsule-related form of the lipopolysaccharide called K(LPS).
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- Olga G Ovchinnikova
- TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
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De Castro C, Kenyon JJ, Cunneen MM, Molinaro A, Holst O, Skurnik M, Reeves PR. The O-specific polysaccharide structure and gene cluster of serotype O:12 of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis complex, and the identification of a novel L-quinovose biosynthesis gene. Glycobiology 2012; 23:346-53. [PMID: 23077132 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cws145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A major virulence factor for Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is lipopolysaccharide, including O-polysaccharide (OPS). Currently, the OPS based serotyping scheme for Y. pseudotuberculosis includes 21 known O-serotypes, with genetic and structural data available for 17 of them. The completion of the OPS structures and genetics of this species will enable the visualization of relationships between O-serotypes and allow for analysis of the evolutionary processes within the species that give rise to new serotypes. Here we present the OPS structure and gene cluster of serotype O:12, thus adding one more to the set of completed serotypes, and show that this serotype is present in both Y. pseudotuberculosis and the newly identified Y. similis species. The O:12 structure is shown to include two rares ugars: 4-C[(R)-1-hydroxyethyl]-3,6-dideoxy-D-xylo-hexose(D-yersiniose) and 6-deoxy-L-glucopyranose (L-quinovose).We have identified a novel putative guanine diphosphate(GDP)-L-fucose 4-epimerase gene and propose a pathway for the synthesis of GDP-L-quinovose, which extends the known GDP-L-fucose pathway.
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- Cristina De Castro
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Ovchinnikova OG, Liu B, Kocharova NA, Shashkov AS, Kondakova AN, Siwinska M, Feng L, Rozalski A, Wang L, Knirel YA. Structure of a peptidoglycan-related polysaccharide from Providencia alcalifaciens O45. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2012; 77:609-15. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297912060077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Liu B, Chen M, Perepelov AV, Liu J, Ovchinnikova OG, Zhou D, Feng L, Rozalski A, Knirel YA, Wang L. Genetic analysis of the O-antigen of Providencia alcalifaciens O30 and biochemical characterization of a formyltransferase involved in the synthesis of a Qui4N derivative. Glycobiology 2012; 22:1236-44. [PMID: 22661447 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cws089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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O-Antigen is a component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria and one of the most variable cell surface constituents, giving rise to major antigenic variability. The diversity of O-antigen is almost entirely attributed to genetic variations in O-antigen gene clusters. Bacteria of the genus Providencia are facultative pathogens, which can cause urinary tract infections, wound infections and enteric diseases. Recently, the O-antigen gene cluster of Providencia was localized between the cpxA and yibK genes in the genome. However, few genes involved in the synthesis of Providencia O-antigens have been functionally identified. In this study, the putative O-antigen gene cluster of Providencia alcalifaciens O30 was sequenced and analyzed. Almost all putative genes for the O-antigen synthesis were found, including a novel formyltransferase gene vioF that was proposed to be responsible for the conversion of dTDP-4-amino-4,6- dideoxy-D-glucose (dTDP-D-Qui4N) to dTDP-4,6-dideoxy-4-formamido-D-glucose (dTDP-D-Qui4NFo). vioF was cloned, and the enzyme product was expressed as a His-tagged fusion protein, purified and assayed for its activity. High-performance liquid chromatography was used to monitor the enzyme-substrate reaction, and the structure of the product dTDP-D-Qui4NFo was established by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Kinetic parameters of VioF were determined, and effects of temperature and cations on its activity were also examined. Together, the functional analyses support the identification of the O-antigen gene cluster of P. alcalifaciens O30.
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- Bin Liu
- TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tianjin, PR China
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