Tan Li, Darby Creg
Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, BBRB Box 19, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-2170, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2005 Sep;187(18):6599-600. doi: 10.1128/JB.187.18.6599-6600.2005.
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the major outer membrane component of gram-negative bacteria. The minimal LPS structure for viability of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is lipid A glycosylated with 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (Kdo) residues. Here we show that another member of the Enterobacteriaceae, Yersinia pestis, can survive without Kdo in its LPS.
脂多糖(LPS)是革兰氏阴性菌外膜的主要成分。大肠杆菌和鼠伤寒沙门氏菌血清型鼠伤寒亚种生存所需的最小LPS结构是被3-脱氧-D-甘露糖辛酸(Kdo)残基糖基化的脂质A。在此我们表明,肠杆菌科的另一个成员,鼠疫耶尔森菌,其LPS中没有Kdo也能存活。