Novel variation of lipid A structures in strains of different Yersinia species1
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- 28 December 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 465 (1) , 87-92
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01722-6
Abstract
The Yersinia genus includes human and animal pathogens (plague, enterocolitis). The fine structures of the endotoxin lipids A of seven strains of Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia ruckeri and Yersinia pestis were determined and compared using mass spectrometry. These lipids differed in secondary acylation at C‐2′: this was dodecanoic acid (C12) for two strains of Y. enterocolitica and Y. ruckeri, tetradecanoic acid (C14) in two other Y. enterocolitica and hexadecenoic acid (C16:1) in Y. pestis. The enterocolitica lipids having a mass identical to that of Escherichia coli were found to be structurally different. The results supported the idea of a relation between membrane fluidity and environmental adaptability in Yersinia.Keywords
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