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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M404738200 on June 7, 2004

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 34, 35709-35718, August 20, 2004
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Nonreducing Terminal Modifications Determine the Chain Length of Polymannose O Antigens of Escherichia coli and Couple Chain Termination to Polymer Export via an ATP-binding Cassette Transporter*

Bradley R. Clarke, Leslie Cuthbertson{ddagger}, and Chris Whitfield§

From the Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada

The chain length of bacterial lipopolysaccharide O antigens is regulated to give a modal distribution that is critical for pathogenesis. This paper describes the process of chain length determination in the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter-dependent pathway, a pathway that is widespread among Gram-negative bacteria. Escherichia coli O8 and O9/O9a polymannans are synthesized in the cytoplasm, and an ABC transporter exports the nascent polymer across the inner membrane prior to completion of the LPS molecule. The polymannan O antigens have nonreducing terminal methyl groups. The 3-O-methyl group in serotype O8 is transferred from S-adenosylmethionine by the WbdDO8 enzyme, and this modification terminates polymerization. Methyl groups are added to the O9a polymannan in a reaction dependent on preceding phosphorylation. The bifunctional WbdDO9a catalyzes both reactions, but only the kinase activity controls chain length. Chain termination occurs in a mutant lacking the ABC transporter, indicating that it precedes export. An E. coli wbdDO9a mutant accumulated O9a polymannan in the cytoplasm, indicating that WbdD activity coordinates polymannan chain termination with export across the inner membrane.


Received for publication, April 28, 2004 , and in revised form, June 4, 2004.

* This work was supported by funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (to C. W.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

{ddagger} Recipient of a Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

§ Recipient of a Canada Research Chair. To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 519-824-4120 (ext. 53361); Fax: 519-837-1802; E-mail: cwhitfie{at}uoguelph.ca.


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