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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 278, Issue 6, 3957-3968, February 7, 2003

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Structural Characterization of the Lipid A Component of Sinorhizobium sp. NGR234 Rough and Smooth Form Lipopolysaccharide
DEMONSTRATION THAT THE DISTAL AMIDE-LINKED ACYLOXYACYL RESIDUE CONTAINING THE LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID IS CONSERVED IN RHIZOBIUM AND SINORHIZOBIUM SP.^*,

Seshu K. Gudlavalleti and Lennart S. Forsberg^§

From the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602

A broad-host-range endosymbiont, Sinorhizobium sp. NGR234 is a component of several legume-symbiont model systems; however, there is little structural information on the cell surface glycoconjugates. NGR234 cells in free-living culture produce a major rough lipopolysaccharide (LPS, lacking O-chain) and a minor smooth LPS (containing O-chain), and the structure of the lipid A components was investigated by chemical analyses, mass spectrometry, and NMR spectroscopy of the underivatized lipids A. The lipid A from rough LPS is heterogeneous and consists of six major bisphosphorylated species that differ in acylation. Pentaacyl species (52%) are acylated at positions 2, 3, 2', and 3', and tetraacyl species (46%) lack an acyl group at C-3 of the proximal glucosamine. In contrast to Rhizobium etli and Rhizobium leguminosarum, the NGR234 lipid A contains a bisphosphorylated -(1'  6)-glucosamine disaccharide, typical of enterobacterial lipid A. However, NGR234 lipid A retains the unusual acylation pattern of R. etli lipid A, including the presence of a distal, amide-linked acyloxyacyl residue containing a long chain fatty acid (LCFA) (e.g. 29-hydroxytriacontanoate) attached as the secondary fatty acid. As in R. etli, a 4-carbon fatty acid, -hydroxybutyrate, is esterified to (  1) of the LCFA forming an acyloxyacyl residue at that location. The NGR234 lipid A lacks all other ester-linked acyloxyacyl residues and shows extensive heterogeneity of the amide-linked fatty acids. The N-acyl heterogeneity, including unsaturation, is localized mainly to the proximal glucosamine. The lipid A from smooth LPS contains unique triacyl species (20%) that lack ester-linked fatty acids but retain bisphosphorylation and the LCFA-acyloxyacyl moiety. The unusual structural features shared with R. etli/R. leguminosarum lipid A may be essential for symbiosis.

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