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Correlation between the chemical structure of lipid A from various Gram-negative bacteria and biological activity of their lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as an agonist of the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 4 was investigated. Purified LPS species were quantitatively evaluated by their ability to activate the production of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) by murine bone marrow-derived macrophages in vitro. Wild-type LPS from plague-causing bacteria Yersinia pestis was compared to LPS from mutant strains with defects in acyltransferase genes (lpxM, lpxP) responsible for the attachment of secondary fatty acid residues (12:0 and 16:1) to lipid A. Lipid A of Y. pestis double ΔlpxM/ΔlpxP mutant was found to have the chemical structure that was predicted based on the known functions of the respective acyltransferases. The structures of lipid A from two members of the ancient psychrotrophic bacteria of the genus Psychrobacter were established for the first time, and biological activity of LPS from these bacteria containing lipid A fatty acids with shorter acyl chains (C10–C12) than those in lipid A from LPS of Y. pestis or E. coli (C12–C16) was determined. The data revealed a correlation between the ability of LPS to activate TNF production by bone marrow-derived macrophages with the number and the length of acyl chains within lipid A.
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Published in Russian in Biokhimiya, 2014, Vol. 79, No. 12, pp. 1629–1635.
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Korneev, K.V., Kondakova, A.N., Arbatsky, N.P. et al. Distinct biological activity of lipopolysaccharides with different lipid a acylation status from mutant strains of Yersinia pestis and some members of genus Psychrobacter . Biochemistry Moscow 79, 1333–1338 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297914120062
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