The cell wall of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Oscillochloris trichoides - PubMed (original) (raw)
doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000590. Epub 2017 Dec 8.
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The cell wall of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Oscillochloris trichoides
Olga I Keppen et al. Microbiology (Reading). 2018 Jan.
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Abstract
The filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Oscillochloris trichoides DG-6 has been studied, and it has been shown that there are no lipopolysaccharides on the cell surface. Fatty acids hydroxylated at the C3 position, amino sugars and phosphate-containing compounds characteristic of lipid A have also not been found. The genes encoding for proteins responsible for the synthesis of lipopolysaccharides and the genes for the transport system, usually localized in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, have not been detected in the genome. The rigid layer of the cell wall contains a peptidoglycan consisting of alanine, glutamine, ornithine and glycine, in the respective ratio 1.8 : 1.5 : 1.0 : 0.6. Thus, the investigated bacterium, Osc. trichoides, is a monoderm. The cell wall also contains a branched α-1,4-d-glucan with a repeating unit consisting of glucose residues linked by α-1→4 bonds (α-1→6 at the branching sites). Such polymers have not previously been reported in phototrophic bacteria.
Keywords: cell wall; filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria; lipopolysaccharide; peptidoglycan.
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