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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
Volume 153, Issue -, Pages 2621-2629Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/008078-0
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- MRC [G0500590] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0500590] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0500590] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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Arabinan polysaccharide side-chains are present in both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Corynebacterium glutamicum in the heteropolysaccharide arabinogalactan (AG), and in M. tuberculosis in the lipoglycan lipoarabinomannan (LAM). This study shows by quantitative sugar and glycosyl linkage analysis that C. glutamicum possesses a much smaller LAM version, Cg-LAM, characterized by single t-Araf residues linked to the alpha(1 -> 6)-linked mannan backbone. MALDI-TOF MS showed an average molecular mass of 13 800-15 400 Da for Cg-LAM. The biosynthetic origin of Araf residues found in the extracytoplasmic arabinan domain of AG and LAM is well known to be provided by decaprenyl-monophosphoryl-D-arabinose (DIPA). However, the characterization of LAM in a C. glutamicum: : ubiA mutant devoid of prenyltransferase activity and devoid of DPA-dependent arabinan deposition into AG revealed partial formation of LAM, albeit with a slightly altered molecular mass. These data suggest that in addition to DPA utilization as an Aral donor, alternative pathways exist in Corynebacterianeae for Araf delivery, possibly via an unknown sugar nucleotide.
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