The Diversity of the Core Oligosaccharide in Lipopolysaccharides

Author(s):  
Alba Silipo ◽  
Antonio Molinaro
1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 926-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari-Anne Newman ◽  
Michael J. Daniels ◽  
J. Maxwell Dow

Pre-treatment of leaves of pepper (Capsicum annuum) with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) preparations from enteric bacteria and Xanthomonas campestris could prevent the hypersensitive response caused by an avirulent X. campestris strain. By use of a range of deep-rough mutants, the minimal structure in Salmonella LPS responsible for the elicitation of this effect was determined to be lipid A attached to a disaccharide of 2-keto-3-deoxyoctulosonate; lipid A alone and the free core oligosaccharide from a Salmonella Ra mutant were not effective. For Xanthomonas, the core oligosaccharide alone had activity although lipid A was not effective. The results suggest that pepper cells can recognize different structures within bacterial LPS to trigger alterations in plant response to avirulent pathogens.


2004 ◽  
Vol 271 (23-24) ◽  
pp. 4968-4977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelina L. Zdorovenko ◽  
Evgeny Vinogradov ◽  
Galina M. Zdorovenko ◽  
Buko Lindner ◽  
Olga V. Bystrova ◽  
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1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. G. Johnson ◽  
M. B. Perry ◽  
I. J. McDonald

Cellular and free lipopolysaccharides (LPS) obtained from Neisseria canis and N. subflava were essentially identical. Both cellular and free lipopolysaccharides contained O-polysaccharides of the following composition: L-rhamnose (46 mol), D-glucose (16 mol), L-glycero-D-manno-heptose (2 mol), ethanolamine (2 mol), 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (1 mol), and phosphate (1.5 mol). The core oligosaccharide, which was common to the cellular and free LPS of both organisms, contained L-rhamnose (4 mol), D-glucose (2 mol), L-glycero-D-manno-heptose (2 mol), 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (1 mol), ethanolamine (2 mol), and phosphate (1.5 mol).Accumulated results on LPS composition and structure indicated that Neisseria perflava, N. subflava, and N. flava could not be combined into a single species. On the basis of its nutritional requirements and LPS structure, N. canis could be considered a strain of N. subflava.


1968 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dawson ◽  
J. R. Clamp

The carbohydrate content of an A myeloma globulin was investigated. The carbohydrate content was found to be unchanged when the protein was isolated from the patient over a period of 18 months. The various polymeric forms of the protein contained similar proportions of carbohydrate. The A myeloma globulin contained approx. 2 residues of 6-deoxy-l-galactose (l-fucose), 14–15 of d-mannose, 12–13 of d-galactose, 12–13 of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose (N-acetyl-d-glucosamine), 6 of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-galactose (N-acetyl-d-galactosamine) and 5 of N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid), and these were distributed between six oligosaccharide units all of which were present on the heavy polypeptide chains. The oligosaccharide units showed two kinds of heterogeneity, which have been termed central and peripheral. Central heterogeneity was shown by the presence of three completely different core units, which had the following compositions: (1) 3 residues of d-galactose and 3 of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-galactose, joined to protein by an O-glycosidic linkage between acetamidohexose and serine; (2) 3 residues of d-mannose, 2 of d-galactose and 3 of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose, joined to protein by an N-glycosidic linkage between acetamidohexose and aspartic acid; (3) 4 residues of d-mannose and 3 of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose with a linkage similar to that in (2). The core oligosaccharide units showed peripheral heterogeneity in the attachment of 6-deoxy-l-galactose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose and N-acetylneuraminic acid. Tentative structures are proposed for these various types of oligosaccharide unit. Glycopeptides were isolated in which the sialic acid content exceeded that of d-galactose. Explanations are given for the electrophoretic mobility and staining characteristics of the various glycopeptides.


2004 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 7124-7130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsay M. Schaeffer ◽  
Francis X. McCormack ◽  
Huixing Wu ◽  
Alison A. Weiss

ABSTRACT Surfactant proteins A (SP-A) and D (SP-D) play an important role in the innate immune defenses of the respiratory tract. SP-A binds to the lipid A region of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and SP-D binds to the core oligosaccharide region. Both proteins induce aggregation, act as opsonins for neutrophils and macrophages, and have direct antimicrobial activity. Bordetella pertussis LPS has a branched core structure and a nonrepeating terminal trisaccharide. Bordetella bronchiseptica LPS has the same structure, but lipid A is palmitoylated and there is a repeating O-antigen polysaccharide. The ability of SP-A and SP-D to agglutinate and permeabilize wild-type and LPS mutants of B. pertussis and B. bronchiseptica was examined. Previously, wild-type B. pertussis was shown to resist the effects of SP-A; however, LPS mutants lacking the terminal trisaccharide were susceptible to SP-A. In this study, SP-A was found to aggregate and permeabilize a B. bronchiseptica mutant lacking the terminal trisaccharide, while wild-type B. bronchiseptica and mutants lacking only the palmitoyl transferase or O antigen were resistant to SP-A. Wild-type B. pertussis and B. bronchiseptica were both resistant to SP-D; however, LPS mutants of either strain lacking the terminal trisaccharide were aggregated and permeabilized by SP-D. We conclude that the terminal trisaccharide protects Bordetella species from the bactericidal functions of SP-A and SP-D. The O antigen and palmitoylated lipid A of B. bronchiseptica play no role in this resistance.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (12) ◽  
pp. 1199-1205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Banoub ◽  
Howard J. Hodder

The structure of the core oligosaccharide of Vibrio ordalii has been investigated. The studies involved the use of nuclear magnetic resonance, methylation analysis, partial hydrolysis with hydrochloric acid, nitrous acid deamination, partial hydrolysis with sulfuric acid, Smith degradation, and oxidation with chromium trioxide. As a result of these studies the following structure is proposed.[Formula: see text]


1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Banoub ◽  
Emmanuel Gentip ◽  
Derek H. Shaw

Fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS) was employed for the structural analysis of the core oligosaccharide ofAeromonas hydrophila(Chemotype III) lipopolysaccharide. Positive ion FAB-MS of the underivatized core oligosaccharide gave the protonated molecular ion, confrrming the correct composition in terms of hexoses, heptoses and Kdo which was present as a bicyclic furanosidic lactone. Negative ion FAB-MS gave the deprotonated molecular ion and fragment ions which were derived from more than two cleavage events with charge retention at the reducing and non-reducing terminals. Positive ion F AB-MS of the permethylated core oligosaccharide afforded fragment ions consistent with the defined sequence and branching patterns of the sugar constituents. The electrospray mass spectrum (ESMS) in the positive ion mode of the underivatized core oligosaccharide afforded the protonated molecular ion in the singly and doubly charged forms. Low energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry (CAD MS/MS) analysis of the protonated molecular ion [M+2H]+2provided additional structural data. ESMS of the permethylated and N-acetylated permethylated core oligosaccharides provided useful structural indices and afforded a characteristic pattern for fragmentions resulting from the opening of the methylated bicyclic Kdo furanosidic 1,7- lactone, which was similar to that obtained in the corresponding FAB-MS.


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