title: Structural studies of the capsular polysaccharide and lipopolysaccharide O-antigen of Aeromonas salmonicida strain 80204-1 produced under in vitro and in vivo growth conditions.
abstract: Aeromonas salmonicida is a pathogenic aquatic bacterium and the causal agent of furunculosis in salmon. In the course of this study, it was found that when grown in vitro on tryptic soy agar, A. salmonicida strain 80204-1 produced a capsular polysaccharide with the identical structure to that of the lipopolysaccharide O-chain polysaccharide. A combination of 1D and 2D NMR methods, including a series of 1D analogues of 3D experiments, together with capillary electrophoresis-electrospray MS (CE-ES-MS), compositional and methylation analyses and specific modifications was used to determine the structure of these polysaccharides. Both polymers were shown to be composed of linear trisaccharide repeating units consisting of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galacturonic acid (GalNAcA), 3-[(N-acetyl-L-alanyl)amido]-3,6-dideoxy-D-glucose[3-[(N-acetyl-L-alanyl)amido]-3-deoxy-D-quinovose, Qui3NAlaNAc] and 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-D-glucose (2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-quinovose, QuiNAc) and having the following structure: [-->3)-alpha-D-GalpNAcA-(1-->3)-beta-D-QuipNAc-(1-->4)-beta-D-Quip3NAlaNAc-(1-]n, where GalNAcA is partly presented as an amide and AlaNAc represents N-acetyl-L-alanyl group. CE-ES-MS analysis of CPS and O-chain polysaccharide confirmed that 40% of GalNAcA was present in the amide form. Direct CE-ES-MS/MS analysis of in vivo cultured cells confirmed the formation of a novel polysaccharide, a structure also formed in vitro, which was previously undetectable in bacterial cells grown within implants in fish, and in which GalNAcA was fully amidated.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: Zhan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Suzon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Larocque
authors.forename: Evgeny
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vinogradov
authors.forename: Jean-Robert
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Brisson
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dacanay
authors.forename: Marshall
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Greenwell
authors.forename: Laura L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Eleonora
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Altman
mesh_terms: D048409:Aeromonas salmonicida / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology; D016667:Bacterial Capsules / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods; D019081:O Antigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D019081:O Antigens