Structural determination of the O-specific polysaccharide from Aeromonas hydrophila strain A19 (serogroup O:14) with
Giuseppina Pieretti1, Sara Carillo, Rosa Lanzetta
1Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Biochimica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
Abstract:
Bacteria belonging to the genus Aeromonas are Gram-negative mesophilic and essentially ubiquitous in the microbial biosphere; moreover they are considered very important pathogens in fish and responsible for a great variety of human infections. The virulence of Gram-negative bacteria is often associated with the structure of lipopolysaccharides, which consist of three regions covalently linked: the glycolipid (lipid A), the oligosaccharide region (core region) and the O-specific polysaccharide (O-chain, O-antigen). The O-chain region seems to play an important role in host-pathogen interaction. In the case of Aeromonas hydrophila the majority of pathogenic strains belongs to serogroups O:11, O:16, O:18 and O:34. In this paper, we report the complete structure of the O-chain of A. hydrophila strain A19 (serogroup O:14), a pathogenic strain isolated from European eels, which showed high virulence when tested in trout or mice. Dried cells were extracted by the PCP (phenol/chloroform/petroleum ether) method obtaining the lipopolysaccharide. After mild acid hydrolysis the lipid A was removed by centrifugation and the obtained polysaccharide was fully characterized by means of chemical analysis and one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. All the data collected are directed towards the following structure: [See formula in text].
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