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The lipopolysaccharide of Aeromonas spp: structure-activity relationships
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Marine microorganisms, including Aeromonas, are a source of compds. for drug development that have generated great expectations in the last decades. Aeromonas infections produce septicemia, and ulcerative and haemorrhagic diseases in fish. Among the pathogenic factors assocd. with Aeromonas, the lipopolysaccharides (LPS), a surface glyconconjugate unique to Gram-neg. bacteria consisting of lipid A (lipid anchor of the mol.), core oligosaccharide and O-specific polysaccharide (O antigen), are key elicitors of innate immune responses. The chem. structure of these three parts has been characterized in Aeromonas. Based on the high variability of repeated units of O-polysaccharides, a total of 97 O-serogroups have been described in Aeromonas species, of which four of them (O:11; O:16; O:18 and O:34) account for more than 60% of the septicemia cases. The core of LPS is subdivided into two regions, the inner (highly conserved) and the outer core. The inner core of Aeromonas LPS is characterized by the presence of 3-deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic (ketodeoxyoctonic) acid (Kdo) and l-glycero-d-manno-Heptoses (l,d-Hep), which are linked to the outer core, characterized by the presence of Glc, GlcN, Gal, and GalNAc (in Aeromonas salmonicida), d,d-Hep (in Aeromonas salmonicida), and l,d-Hep (in Aeromonas hydrophila). The biol. relevance of these differences in the distal part of the outer core among these species has not been fully assessed to date. The inner core is attached to the lipid A, a highly conserved structure that confers endotoxic properties to the LPS when the mol. is released in blood from lysed bacteria, thus inducing a major systemic inflammatory response known as septic or endotoxic shock. In Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida the Lipid A components contain three major lipid A mols., differing in acylation patterns corresponding to tetra-, penta- and hexa-acylated lipid A species and comprising of 4'-monophosphorylated β-2-amino-2-deoxy-d-glucopyranose-(1→6)-2-amino-2-deoxy-d-glucopyranose disaccharide. In the present review, we discuss the structure-activity relationships of Aeromonas LPS, focusing on its role in bacterial pathogenesis and its possible applications.
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PIQUÉ I CLUSELLA, Núria, MIÑANA I GALBIS, David, MERINO MONTERO, Susana, TOMÀS MAGAÑA, Juan. The lipopolysaccharide of Aeromonas spp: structure-activity relationships. _Current Topics in Biochemical Research_. 2013. Vol. 15, núm. 2, pàgs. 41-56. [consulta: 21 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0972-4583. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/61964]