Structure determination of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 capsular polysaccharide
Structure determination of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 capsular polysaccharide
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DOI:
10.1139/o09-170
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发表时间:
2010-06-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Gottschalk, Marcello
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Van Calsteren, Marie-Rose;Gagnon, Fleur;Gottschalk, Marcello
The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 was isolated, purified, chemically modified, and characterized. Sugar and absolute configuration analyses of the CPS gave the following composition: D-Gal, 3; D-Glc, 1; D-GlcNAc, I; D-Neu5Ac. 1; L-Rha, I. Sialic acid was found to be terminal, and the CPS was quantitatively desialylated by mild acid hydrolysis. The CPS was also submitted to periodate oxidation followed by borohydride reduction and Smith degradation. Sugar and methylation analysis, H-1 and C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectrometry of the native CPS or of its specifically modified products allowed to determine the repeating unit sequence: [4)[Neu5Ac(alpha 2-6)Gal(beta 1-4)GlcNAc(beta 1-3)]Gal(beta 1-4)[Gal(alpha 1-3)]Rha(beta 1-4)Glc(beta 1-](n) The backbone sequence was found to be identical to that of Streptococcus agalactiae or group B Streptococcus (GBS) type VIII and Streptococcus pneumoniae type 23F. The S. suis CPS shares the sequence Neu5Ac-Gal-GlcAc-Gal in common with GBS types la, I, II, Ill, and IV CPSs but differs from them by the presence of rhamnose and the fact that sialic acid is 2,6- rather than 2,3-linked to the following Gal. A correlation between the S. suis CPS sequence and genes of the serotypc 2 cps locus encoding putative enzymes responsible for the biosynthesis of the repeating unit was tentatively established.