The Acinetobacter baumannii K70 and K9 capsular polysaccharides consist of related K-units linked by the same Wzy polymerase and cleaved by the same phage depolymerases
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Sharar, Nowshin S
Ambrose, Stephanie J
Knirel, Yuriy A
Shneider, Mikhail M
Timoshina, Olga Y
Popova, Anastasiya V
Perepelov, Andrey V
Dmitrenok, Andrey S
Hsu, Li Yang
Hall, Ruth M
Kenyon, Johanna J
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The extensively antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii GC1(ST1IP) isolate SGH0807 from Singapore carries the KL70 gene cluster. The structure of the K70 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) produced by SGH0807 was determined using sugar analysis and one- and two-dimensional 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. The K70 CPS consists of branched tetrasaccharide K-units and is closely related to the previously reported K9 CPS. The KL70 and KL9 loci differ in a short segment that encodes the initiating transferase for d-FucpNAc in K70 and d-GlcpNAc in K9. The two structures differ only in the identity of the “first” sugar of the K-unit, d-FucpNAc in K70 and d-GlcpNAc in K9. This difference alters the identity of one of the sugars involved in the linkage between K-units formed by the Wzy polymerase. However, KL70 and KL9 encode an identical Wzy polymerase, designated as WzyKL9, indicating that the differences between d-FucpNAc and d-GlcpNAc do not affect its function. Whether the difference in the first sugars was recognized by the depolymerases encoded by three K9-specific bacteriophages, AM24, BS46, and APK09, that hydrolyze the bond in K9 CPS formed by WzyKL9 was also examined. Purified depolymerases incubated with K70 CPS purified from SGH0807 formed oligosaccharide fragments that were monomers and dimers of the CPS cleaved at the linkage between K-units. As depolymerases encoded by phage determine host specificity by hydrolyzing specific CPS types, these phages could infect and lyse the SGH0807 K70 isolate. A. baumannii carrying KL70 were found in Singapore hospitals between 2006 and 2009.
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Microbiology Spectrum
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© 2023 Kasimova et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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Microbiology
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Acinetobacter baumannii
capsular polysaccharide
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Kasimova, AA; Sharar, NS; Ambrose, SJ; Knirel, YA; Shneider, MM; Timoshina, OY; Popova, AV; Perepelov, AV; Dmitrenok, AS; Hsu, LY; Hall, RM; Kenyon, JJ, The Acinetobacter baumannii K70 and K9 capsular polysaccharides consist of related K-units linked by the same Wzy polymerase and cleaved by the same phage depolymerases, Microbiology Spectrum, 2023, 11 (6)