Open AccessThe influence of the O‐antigen and the capsular polysaccharide on the establishment of PlCm ts lysogeny in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Author(s) -
Camprubí Silvia,
Sabater Esteve,
Regué Miquel,
Tomás Juan M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1989.tb03421.x
Subject(s) - lipopolysaccharide , klebsiella pneumoniae , microbiology and biotechnology , antigen , lysogenic cycle , polysaccharide , klebsiella , biology , escherichia coli , immunology , biochemistry , bacteriophage , gene
Abstract The O‐antigen of the lipopolysaccharide in Klebsiella pneumoniae caused a significant reduction in the frequency of establishment of of PlCm ts lysogeny, while the capsular polysaccharide showed no effect on this frequency. The bacterial receptor for PlCm ts are the lipopolysaccharide‐core oligosaccharides, the results suggest that K. pneumoniae strains with an O‐antigen in their lipopolysaccharide have a poorly accesible lipopolysaccharide‐core (the PlCm ts bacterial receptor), while K. pneumoniae strains lacking the O‐antigen have a higly accessible lipopolysaccharide‐core. The accessibility of the receptor is independent of the K antigen (capsular polysaccharide).