A New Look at the Enterobacterial Common Antigen Forms Obtained during Rough Lipopolysaccharides Purification

Enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) is a conserved antigen expressed by enterobacteria. It is built by trisaccharide repeating units: →3)-α-D-Fuc 4NAc-(1→4)-β-D-Man NAcA-(1→4)-α-D-Glc NAc-(1→ and occurs in three forms: as surface-bound linear polysaccharides linked to a phosphoglyceride (ECA ) or l...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of molecular sciences 2021-01, Vol.22 (2), p.701
Hauptverfasser: Gozdziewicz, Tomasz K, Maciejewska, Anna, Tsybulska, Alona, Lugowski, Czeslaw, Lukasiewicz, Jolanta
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Zusammenfassung:Enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) is a conserved antigen expressed by enterobacteria. It is built by trisaccharide repeating units: →3)-α-D-Fuc 4NAc-(1→4)-β-D-Man NAcA-(1→4)-α-D-Glc NAc-(1→ and occurs in three forms: as surface-bound linear polysaccharides linked to a phosphoglyceride (ECA ) or lipopolysaccharide - endotoxin (ECA ), and cyclic form (ECA ). ECA maintains, outer membrane integrity, immunogenicity, and viability of enterobacteria. A supernatant obtained after LPS ultracentrifugation was reported as a source for ECA isolation, but it has never been assessed for detailed composition besides ECA . We used mild acid hydrolysis and gel filtration, or zwitterionic-hydrophilic interaction liquid (ZIC HILIC) chromatography combined with mass spectrometry for purification, fractionation, and structural analysis of rough and R1 and K12 crude LPS preparations. Presented work is the first report concerning complex characteristic of all ECA forms present in LPS-derived supernatants. We demonstrated high heterogeneity of the supernatant-derived ECA that contaminate LPS purified by ultracentrifugation. Not only previously reported -acetylated tetrameric, pentameric, and hexameric ECA have been identified, but also devoid of lipid moiety linear ECA built from 7 to 11 repeating units. Described results were common for all selected strains. The origin of linear ECA is discussed against the current knowledge about ECA and ECA .
ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms22020701