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  • genomic and proteomic studies on Plesiomonas shigelloides lipopolysaccharide core biosynthesis
    Journal of Bacteriology, 2014
    Co-Authors: Eleonora Aquilini, Susana Merino, Miguel Regue, Juan M Tomas
    Abstract:

    We report here the identification of waa clusters with the genes required for the biosynthesis of the core lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of two Plesiomonas shigelloides strains. Both P. shigelloides waa clusters shared all of the genes besides the ones flanking waaL. In both strains, all of the genes were found in the waa gene cluster, although one common core biosynthetic gene (wapG) was found in a different chromosome location outside the cluster. Since P. shigelloides and Klebsiella pneumoniae share a core LPS carbohydrate backbone extending up at least to the second outer-core residue, the functions of the common P. shigelloides genes were elucidated by genetic complementation studies using well-defined K. pneumoniae mutants. The function of strain-specific inner- or outer-core genes was identified by using as a surrogate acceptor LPS from three well-defined K. pneumoniae core LPS mutants. Using this strategy, we were able to assign a proteomic function to all of the P. shigelloides waa genes identified in the two strains encoding six new glycosyltransferases (WapA, -B, -C, -D, -F, and -G). P. shigelloides demonstrated an important variety of core LPS structures, despite being a single species of the genus, as well as high homologous recombination in housekeeping genes.

  • genome sequence of Plesiomonas shigelloides strain 302 73 serotype o1
    Genome Announcements, 2013
    Co-Authors: Nuria Pique, Eleonora Aquilini, Tyler Alioto, David Minanagalbis, Juan M Tomas
    Abstract:

    ABSTRACT Plesiomonas shigelloides, the only species of the genus, is an emergent pathogenic bacterium associated with human diarrheal and extraintestinal disease. We present the whole-genome sequence analysis of the representative strain for the O1 serotype (strain 302-73), providing a tool for studying bacterial outbreaks, virulence factors, and accurate diagnostic methods.

  • structural studies of the o chain polysaccharide from Plesiomonas shigelloides strain 302 73 serotype o1
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2008
    Co-Authors: Giuseppina Pieretti, Maria Michela Corsaro, Rosa Lanzetta, Michelangelo Parrilli, Rocio Canals, Susana Merino, Juan M Tomas
    Abstract:

    Plesiomonas shigelloides is a Gram-negative bacterium belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family. It has been found in an aquatic environment in the tropical and subtropical regions and is responsible for many gastrointestinal infections in humans, which take place from drinking untreated water or eating uncooked shellfish. Plesiomonas shigelloides has also been reported to provoke extraintestinal infections such as meningitis and bacteremia in immunocompromised adults and neonates. Despite the emerging importance of this pathogenic microorganism, only three different O-antigens have been characterised so far. The structure of the O-chain of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Plesiomonasshigelloides strain 302–73 (serotype O1) was determined by chemical analysis, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The polysaccharide was constituted by a linear pentasaccharidic repeating unit as follows: 3)-α-L-PneNAc4OAc(14)-α-L-FucNAc(14)-α-L-FucNAc(14)-α-L-FucNAc(13)-β-D-QuiNAc4NHb(1 (PneNAc = 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-talose, Hb = (S)-3-hydroxybutanoyl) PneNAc O-acetylation was not stoichiometric and was found to be about 75 %. The position of the O-acetyl group and the amount of acetylation were deduced by NMR spectroscopic analysis. All the monosaccharides included in the repeating unit were deoxyamino sugars, which most probably, together with the presence of O-acetyl groups, were responsible for the recovery of the LPS in the phenol layer of the phenol/water extract of dried bacteria cells.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008)

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