Characterization of the lipid-carrier involved in the synthesis of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) and identification of a novel phosphoglyceride in a mutant of Salmonella typhimurium defective in ECA synthesis
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Characterization of the lipid-carrier involved in the synthesis of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) and identification of a novel phosphoglyceride in a mutant of Salmonella typhimurium defective in ECA synthesis
Abstract
The polysaccharide chains of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) consist of linear trisaccharide repeat units with the structure -->3)-alpha-d-Fuc4NAc-(1-->4)-beta-d-ManNAcA-(1--> 4)-alpha-d-GlcNAc-(1-->, where Fuc4NAc is 4-acetamido-4, 6-dideoxy-d-galactose, ManNAcA is N -acetyl-d- mannosaminuronic acid, and GlcNAc is N -acetyl-d-glucosamine. The major form of ECA (ECAPG) consists of polysaccharide chains that are believed to be covalently linked to diacylglycerol through phosphodiester linkage; the phospholipid moiety functions to anchor molecules in the outer membrane. The ECA trisaccharide repeat unit is assembled as a polyisoprenyl-linked intermediate which has been tentatively identified as Fuc4NAc-ManNAcA-GlcNAc-pyrophosphorylundecaprenol (lipid III). Subsequent chain-elongation presumably occurs by a block-polymerization mechanism. However, the identity of the polyisoprenoid carrier-lipid has not been established. Accordingly, the current studies were conducted in an effort to structurally characterize the polyisoprenyl lipid-carrier involved in ECA synthesis. Isolation and characterization of the lipid carrier was facilitated by the accumulation of a ManNAcA-GlcNAc-pyrophosphorylpolyisoprenyl lipid (lipid II) in mutants of Salmonella typhimurium defective in the synthesis of TDP-Fuc4NAc, the donor of Fuc4NAc residues for ECA synthesis. Analyses of lipid II preparations by fast atom bombardment tandem mass spectroscopy (FAB-MS/MS) resulted in the identification of the lipid-carrier as the 55-carbon polyisoprenyl alcohol, undecaprenol. These analyses also resulted in the identification of a novel glycolipid which copurified with lipid II. FAB-MS/MS analyses of this glycolipid revealed its structure to be 1,2-diacyl- sn -glycero-3-pryophosphoryl-GlcNAc-ManNAcA (DGP-disaccharide). An examination of purified ECAPGby phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy confirmed that the polysaccharide chains are linked to diacylglycerol through phosphodiester linkage. Thus, DGP-disaccharide does not appear to be an intermediate in ECAPGsynthesis. Nevertheless, although the available evidence clearly indicate that lipid II is a precursor of DGP-disaccharide, the function of this novel glycolipid is not yet known, and it may be an intermediate in the biosynthesis of a molecule other than ECAPG.
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