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Determination of the O-specific polysaccharide structure in the lipopolysaccharide of Ochrobactrum anthropi LMG 3331 by Julián Velasco; Hermann Moll; Evgeny V. Vinogradov; Ignacio Moriyón; Ulrich Zähringer is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.

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Ochrobactrum anthropi is a recently defined species [l] formerly included in the heterogeneous CDC group Vd. This organism has been isolated with increasing frequency in blood cultures from immunocompromised patients and from environmental and hospital water sources [2]. More recently, O. anthropi has been described as an endo-symbiont of nematodes [3], suggesting that the original habitat could be the soil, and this could explain the unpredictable multiple antibiotic resistance of the isolates [4]. On the basis of the 16S rRNA sequence, O. anthropi has been included in the a-2 subgroup of the class Proteobacteria, showing the greatest relatedness with important pathogens like Brucella and the Rochalimaea-Bartonella group [5]. Since the cellsurface lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) are of critical importance in pathogenicity [6] a comparison of the LPSs of Brucella and O. anthropi could contribute to a better understanding of the biology of these bacteria. The LPS of Brucella has been partially characterised [7] but there are no data on the LPS of O. anthropi. Here we report the structure of the O-chain polysaccharide of the LPS of O. anthropi LMG 3331 (type strain). It was found to consi

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Author

Julián Velasco; Hermann Moll; Evgeny V. Vinogradov; Ignacio Moriyón; Ulrich Zähringer

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0008-6215)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)