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The structure of the O-specific polysaccharide from a mutant of nitrogen-fixing rhizobacterium Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 with an altered plasmid content

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Abstract

The rhizobacteria Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 produce immunochemically different lipopolysaccharides LPSI and LPSII, both containing identical pentasaccharides built from D-rhamnose residues as the repeating units of O-specific polysaccharides (OPS). In this study, we report the structure of the OPS from A. brasilense LPSI−LPSII− mutant Sp245.5, which spontaneously lost the p85 and p120 plasmids upon the formation of a new 300-MDa megaplasmid after the long-term storage of the bacteria in a rich medium. The repeating unit of the OPS of A. brasilense Sp245.5 appeared to be a disaccharide consisting of residues of N-acetyl-D-galactosamine and N-acetyl-D-mannosaminuronic acid:

$$ \to 6) - \alpha - D - GalpNAc - (1 \to 4) - \beta - D - ManpNAcA - (1 \to $$

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Abbreviations

CBPS:

Calcofluor-binding polysaccharides

CC:

coupling constant

COSY:

correlation spectroscopy

CPS:

capsular polysaccharides

EPS:

exopolysaccharides

HMBS:

heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation spectroscopy

HSQC:

heteronuclear single-quantum coherence spectroscopy

LPS:

lipopolysaccharide

OPS:

O-specific polysaccharide

ROESY:

rotating-frame nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy

TOCSY:

total correlation spectroscopy

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  1. Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Entuziastov 13, Saratov, 410049, Russia

    Yu. P. Fedonenko, E. I. Katsy, L. P. Petrova & A. S. Boyko

  2. N.D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 47, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    E. L. Zdorovenko, V. V. Kachala, A. S. Shashkov & Yu. A. Knirel

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Original Russian Text © Yu.P. Fedonenko, E.I. Katsy, L.P. Petrova, A.S. Boyko, E.L. Zdorovenko, V.V. Kachala, A.S. Shashkov, Yu.A. Knirel, 2010, published in Bioorganicheskaya Khimiya, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 236–240.

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Fedonenko, Y.P., Katsy, E.I., Petrova, L.P. et al. The structure of the O-specific polysaccharide from a mutant of nitrogen-fixing rhizobacterium Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 with an altered plasmid content. Russ J Bioorg Chem 36, 219–223 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1068162010020111

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Key words

  • Azospirillum brasilense
  • O-specific polysaccharide structure
  • plasmid rearrangements