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Rhizobium fredii participates in a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with soybeans, in a strain-cultivar-specific interaction, and past studies have shown that the cell surface and extracellular polysaccharides of rhizobia function in the infection process that leads to symbiosis. The structural analysis of the capsular polysaccharides (K antigens) from strain USDA257 was performed in this study. The K antigens were extracted from cultured cells with hot phenol-water and purified by size exclusion chromatography. We isolated two structurally distinct K antigens, both containing a high proportion of 3-deoxy-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid (Kdo). The polysaccharides were characterized by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight-mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses. The primary polysaccharide, which constituted about 60% of the K-antigen preparation, consisted of repeating units of mannose (Man) and Kdo, [--&gt;)3-beta-D-Manp-(1--&gt;5)-beta-D-Kdop-(2--&gt;], and a second polysaccharide consisted of 2-O-MeMan and Kdo, [--&gt;)3-beta-D-2-O-MeManp-(1--&gt;5)-beta-D-Kdop-(2--&gt;]. These structures are similar to yet distinct from those of other strains of R. fredii and R. meliloti, and this finding provides further evidence that the K antigens of rhizobia are strain-specific antigens which are produced within a conserved motif.

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Structural characterization of the K antigens from Rhizobium fredii USDA257: evidence for a common structural motif, with strain-specific variation, in the capsular polysaccharides of Rhizobium spp