Studies of the cellular and free lipopolysaccharides from Neisseria canis and N. subflava
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Vol. 22 (2) , 189-196
- https://doi.org/10.1139/m76-026
Abstract
Cellular and free lipopolysaccharides (LPS) obtained from N. canis and N. subflava were essentially identical. Both cellular and free lipopolysaccharides contained O-polysaccharides of the following composition: L-rhamnose (46 mol), D-glucose (16 mol), L-glycero-D-manno-heptose (2 mol), ethanolamine (2 mol), 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (1 mol) and phosphate (1.5 mol). The core oligosaccharide, which was common to the cellular and free LPS of both organisms, contained L-rhamnose (4 mol), D-glucose (2 mol), L-glycero-D-manno-heptose (2 mol), 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (1 mol), ethanolamine (2 mol) and phoshate (1.5 mol). Accumulated results on LPS composition and structure indicated that N. perflava, N. subflava and N. flava could not be combined into a single species. On the basis of its nutritional requirements and LPS structure, N. canis could be considered a strain of N. subflava.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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