title: Structure of the glycerol phosphate-containing O-polysaccharides and serological studies of the lipopolysaccharides of Proteus mirabilis CCUG 10704 (OE) and Proteus vulgaris TG 103 classified into a new Proteus serogroup, O54.
abstract: O-Polysaccharides were obtained from the lipopolysaccharides of Proteus mirabilis CCUG 10704 (OE) and Proteus vulgaris TG 103 and studied by chemical analyses and one- and two-dimensional (1)H and (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, including rotating-frame nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy, H-detected (1)H,(13)C heteronuclear single-quantum spectroscopy and (1)H,(31)P heteronuclear multiple-quantum spectroscopy experiments. The Proteus mirabilis OE polysaccharide was found to have a trisaccharide repeating unit with a lateral glycerol phosphate group. The Proteus vulgaris TG 103 produces a similar O-polysaccharide, which differs in incomplete substitution with glycerol phosphate (c. 50% of the stoichiometric amount) and the presence of an O-acetyl group at position 6 of the 2-acetamido-2-deoxygalactose (GalNAc) residue. These structures are unique among the known bacterial polysaccharide structures. Based on the structural and serological data of the lipopolysaccharides, it is proposed to classify both strains studied into a new Proteus serogroup, O54, as two subgroups, O54a,54b and O54a,54c. The serological relatedness of the Proteus O54 and some other Proteus lipopolysaccharides is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kołodziejska
authors.forename: Andrei V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Perepelov
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zabłotni
authors.forename: Dominika
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Drzewiecka
authors.forename: Sof'ya N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Senchenkova
authors.forename: Krystyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zych
authors.forename: Alexander S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Shashkov
authors.forename: Yuriy A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Knirel
authors.forename: Zygmunt
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sidorczyk
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D018604:Epitope Mapping; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D019081:O Antigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D011513:Proteus mirabilis / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D011514:Proteus vulgaris / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D019081:O Antigens; C504011:O-polysaccharide, Proteus mirabilis O40; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial