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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
卷 48, 期 11, 页码 2419-2427出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M700193-JLR200
关键词
de-O-acylation; Gram-negative bacteria; hexosamine; endotoxin; lipopolysaccharide; mass spectrometry
Endotoxins [ lipopolysaccharides ( LPSs)] are part of the outer cell membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Their biological activities are associated mainly with the lipid component ( lipid A) and even more specifically with discrete aspects of their fine structure. The need for a rapid and small-scale analysis of lipid A motivated us to develop a procedure that combines direct isolation of lipids A from bacterial cells with sequential release of their ester-linked fatty acids by a mild alkali treatment followed by MALDI-MS analysis. This method avoids the multiple-step LPS extraction procedure and lipid A isolation. The whole process can be performed in a working day and applied to lyophilized bacterial samples as small as 1 mg. We illustrate the method by applying it to the analysis of lipids A of three species of Citrobacter that were found to be identical. On the other hand, when applied to two batches of Bordetella bronchiseptica strain 4650, it highlighted the presence, in one of them, of hitherto unreported hexosamine residues substituting the lipid A phosphate groups, possibly a new camouflage opportunity to escape a host defense system.
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