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The branched O-antigens of Escherichia coli O159 and Shigella dysenteriae type 4 are structurally related and are known to show cross-reactivity with antibodies. In the present study, conformational analyses were performed on these two O-antigens using molecular mechanics MM3(96) with filtered systematic search. The results show very strong steric restrictions for the trisaccharide at the branch point of the E. coli O159 antigen, especially for the beta-d-GlcNAc-(1-->3)-beta-d-GlcNAc linkage of the main chain. For the type 4 O-antigen the calculations show essentially a single conformation with respect to the alpha-d-GlcNAc-(1-->3)-alpha-d-GlcNAc linkage of the main chain and three different favoured conformations for the fucose branch. Consecutive repeating units of the S. dysenteriae type 4 and E. coli O159 O-antigens form linear extended chains with significant flexibility between the branches. Comparative calculations carried out with the SWEET server indicate that our method of filtered systematic search is a superior method in the case of branched, constrained oligosaccharides. Based on the results of the MM3 calculations, we propose that the common epitope explaining the cro

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Author

Jimmy Rosen; Armin Robobi; Per-Georg Nyholm

Publisher

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

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)