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Immunochemical characterization of lipopolysaccharide from glucose-nonfermenting gram-negative clinical bacterial
M Mieszała1, J Kübler, A Gamian
1Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland.
Acta Biochimica Polonica
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
A glucose-nonfermenting Gram-negative bacterial strain isolated from bronchofiberoscope used for examination of the patients suffering from pulmonary diseases was subjected to phenol-water extraction. Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) isolated from the water and the phenol phase differed in fatty acid composition. Both contained xylose, glucose, glucosamine and components typical for LPS, namely heptose, 3-deoxyoctulosonic acid (Kdo) and 3-hydroxymyristic acid. The presence of sphingosine in all LPS preparations classifies the strain to the genus Sphingomonas.