title: Structural and serological studies on the O-antigen of Proteus mirabilis O14, a new polysaccharide containing 2-[(R)-1-carboxyethylamino]ethyl phosphate.
abstract: An O-specific polysaccharide was obtained by mild acid degradation of Proteus mirabilis O14 lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and found to contain D-galactose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glalactose, phosphate, N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-D-alanine (D-AlaEtn), and O-acetyl groups. Studies of the initial and O-deacetylated polysaccharides using one- and two-dimensional 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy, including COSY, TOCSY, NOESY, H-detected 1H,13C heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence, and heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation experiments, demonstrated the following structure of the repeating unit: [equation: see text] This is the second bacterial polysaccharide reported to contain alpha-D-Galp6PAlaEtn, whereas the first one was the O-antigen of P. mirabilis EU313 taken erroneously as strain PrK 6/57 from the O3 serogroup [Vinogradov, E. V., Kaca, W., Shashkov, A.S., Krajewska-Pietrasik, D., Rozalski, A., Knirel, Y.A. & Kochetkov, N.K. (1990) Eur. J. Biochem., 188, 645-651]. Anti-(P. mirabilis O14) serum cross-reacted with LPS of P. mirabilis EU313 and vice versa in passive hemolysis and ELISA. Absorption of both O-antisera with the heterologous LPS decreased markedly but did not abolish the reaction with the homologous LPS. These and chemical data indicated that both strains have similar but not identical O-antigens. Therefore, we propose that P. mirabilis EU313 should belong to a new subgroup of the O14 serogroup.
authors.affiliation: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciencences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Perepelov
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ujazda
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Senchenkova
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Shashkov
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kaca
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Knirel
mesh_terms: D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006461:Hemolysis; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009005:Monosaccharides / Q000032:analysis; D019081:O Antigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry*; D011513:Proteus mirabilis / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D012699:Serology
chemical_list: D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D009005:Monosaccharides; D019081:O Antigens; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial