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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 41, 26432-26440, October 9, 1998

Cloning and Overexpression of Glycosyltransferases That Generate the Lipopolysaccharide Core of Rhizobium leguminosarum

Julie L. KadrmasDagger , David Allaway, Rachael E. Studholmeparallel , John T. Sullivanparallel , Clive W. Ronsonparallel , Philip S. Poole, and Christian R. H. RaetzDagger

From the Dagger  Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, the parallel  Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and the  Division of Microbiology, School of Animal and Microbiological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, United Kingdom

The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) core of the Gram-negative bacterium Rhizobium leguminosarum is more amenable to enzymatic study than that of Escherichia coli because much of it is synthesized from readily available sugar nucleotides. The inner portion of the R. leguminosarum core contains mannose, galactose, and three 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate (Kdo) residues, arranged in the order: lipid A-(Kdo)2-Man-Gal-Kdo-[O antigen]. A mannosyltransferase that uses GDP-mannose and the conserved precursor Kdo2-[4'-32P]lipid IVA (Kadrmas, J. L., Brozek, K. A., and Raetz, C. R. H. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 32119-32125) is proposed to represent a key early enzyme in R. leguminosarum core assembly. Conditions for demonstrating efficient galactosyl- and distal Kdo-transferase activities are now described using a coupled assay system that starts with GDP-mannose and Kdo2-[4'-32P]lipid IVA. As predicted, mannose incorporation precedes galactose addition, which in turn precedes distal Kdo transfer. LPS core mutants with Tn5 insertions in the genes encoding the putative galactosyltransferase (lpcA) and the distal Kdo-transferase (lpcB) are shown to be defective in the corresponding in vitro glycosylation of Kdo2-[4'-32P]lipid IVA. We have also discovered the new gene (lpcC) that encodes the mannosyltransferase. The gene is separated by several kilobase pairs from the lpcAB cluster. All three glycosyltransferases are carried on cosmid pIJ1848, which contains at least 20 kilobase pairs of R. leguminosarum DNA. Transfer of pIJ1848 into R. meliloti 1021 results in heterologous expression of all three enzymes, which are not normally present in strain 1021. Expression of the lpc genes individually behind the T7 promoter results in the production of each R. leguminosarum glycosyltransferase in E. coli membranes in a catalytically active form, demonstrating that lpcA, lpcB, and lpcC are structural genes.

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