Biosynthesis of cell wall lipopolysaccharide in mutants of Salmonella. V. A mutant of Salmonella typhimurium defective in the synthesis of cytidine diphosphoabequose.

Journal of Bacteriology
R YuasaH Nikaido

Abstract

A mutant of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 was found to be unable to convert cytidine diphospho-4-keto-6-deoxy-d-glucose into cytidine diphosphoabequose. The mutation maps in the rfb gene cluster, which is known to be involved in the biosynthesis of the peripheral, "O side-chain" portion of cell wall lipopolysaccharide. In spite of the fact that, in the O side chains, abequose is not a part of the main chain but occurs as short branches, the mutant appears to be unable to polymerize oligosaccharide "repeat units" into long O side chains. The following evidence indicates that this failure is the result of the absence of cytidine diphosphoabequose rather than that of a superimposed second mutation in other genes of the rfb cluster. (i) The mutant does not behave like a multisite mutant in genetic crosses, and it gives rise, at a high frequency, to "revertants" where the ability to synthesize cytidine diphosphoabequose and the ability to synthesize normal lipopolysaccharide with O side chains are both restored. (ii) The mutant strain has normal levels of activity of all of the other enzymes known to be involved in O side-chain synthesis, except that the levels of several enzymes were lowered by about 30% owing to the polarity effect o...Continue Reading

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