Escherichia polysaccharides production

Cox GB, Newton NA, Gibson F, Snoswell AM and Hamilton JA (1970) The fimction of ubiquinone in Escherichia coli. Biochem J 117 551 -562 Crow VL (1988) Polysaccharide production by propionibacteria during lactose fermentation. 

Fructose occurs rarely in the bacterial polysaccharide. It has been found in the LPS of several Vibrio species [108] and in the K4 [109] and Kll [110] capsular antigens of Escherichia coli. In all cases, fructose appears as a terminal residue. In several plant species, fructans consisting of p-D-fructofuranosyl units are present as important storage polymers. The structure of the polysaccharide isolated from B. caryophylli is different from those of the above polysaccharides however, as levan can be isolated as bacterial exopolysaccharides, this polysaccharide may be a side-product of levan biosynthesis. 

Stevenson, G. Andrianopoulos, K. Hobbs, M. Reeves, P.R. Organization of the Escherichia coli K-12 gene cluster responsible for production of the extracellular polysaccharide colanic acid. J. BacterioL, 178, 4885-4893 (1996)... 

Frosch M, Gorgen I, Boulnois GJ, Timmis KN, Bitter-Suermann D (1985) NZB mouse system for production of monoclonal antibodies to weak bacterial antigens isolation of an IgG antibody to the polysaccharide capsules of Escherichia coli K1 and group B meningococci. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 82 1194—1198... 

Roberts, I. S., Mountford, R., Hodge, R., Jann, K. B., and Boulnois, G. J., 1988, Common organization of gene clusters for production of different capsular polysaccharides (K antigens) in Escherichia coli, J. Bacteriol. 170 1305-1310. 

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