title: Structural and serological characterisation of the O-antigenic polysaccharide of the lipopolysaccharide from Acinetobacter baumannii strain 24.
abstract: Extraction of dry bacteria of Acinetobacter baumannii strain 24 by phenol-water yielded a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) that was studied by serological methods and fatty acid analysis. After immunisation of BALB/c mice with this strain, monoclonal antibody S48-3-13 (IgG(3) isotype) was obtained, which reacted with the LPS in western blot and characterized it as S-form LPS. Degradation of the LPS in aqueous 1% acetic acid followed by GPC gave the O-antigenic polysaccharide, whose structure was determined by compositional analyses and NMR spectroscopy of the polysaccharide and O-deacylated polysaccharide as [carbohydrate structure: see text] where QuiN4N is 2,4-diamino-2,4,6-trideoxyglucose and GalNAcA 2-acetamido-2-deoxygalacturonic acid. The amino group at C-4 of the QuipN4N residues is acetylated in about 2/3 of LPS molecules and (S)-3-hydroxybutyrylated in the rest.
authors.affiliation: Division of Medical and Biochemical Microbiology, Research Center Borstel, D-23845 Borstel, Germany.
authors.forename: Evgeny V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Vinogradov
authors.forename: Lore
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brade
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brade
authors.forename: Otto
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Holst
mesh_terms: D040981:Acinetobacter baumannii / Q000737:chemistry*; D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000737:chemistry; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019081:O Antigens / Q000737:chemistry*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry; D019800:Phenol / Q000737:chemistry; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D005227:Fatty Acids; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D019081:O Antigens; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D014867:Water; D019800:Phenol