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T Uchida

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PubMed1974

Mutants of group D1 Salmonella carrying the somatic antigen of group A organisms: evidence for the lack of cytidine diphosphate paratose-2-epimerase activity.

The mutant strains of Salmonella durban that possessed O antigen 2, 12 of group A Salmonella were defective in the cytidine diphosphate paratose-2-epimerase activity. The enzyme preparation of the mutant strains catalyzed the conversion of cytidine diphosphate glucose into cytidine diphosphate paratose but not into cytidine diphosphate tyvelose. The defect in the epimerase activity was also confirmed by the use of purified cytidine diphosphate paratose as a substrate. The specificity of dideoxyhexosyl transferase catalyzing the formation of the group-specific determinant is discussed.

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PubMed1974

Mutants of group D1 Salmonella carrying the somatic antigen of group A organisms: isolation and serological characterization.

O antigen mutants were obtained from Salmonella durban, a group D(1) organism, by treatment with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Serological studies demonstrated that the mutants lost the O-9 antigen factor of the parent organism but acquired the O-2 factor specific to group A Salmonella. Lipopolysaccharides of the mutant strains contained paratose which determines the specificity of O-2 factor. Tyvelose, present in the wild-type lipopolysaccharide, was not found in the mutants. H antigens and other biological characteristics of the mutant strains were the same as those of the wild-type organism. The present finding implies that group A Salmonella species might be derived from group D(1) organisms.

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