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J Med Microbiol 52 (2003), 845-851; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05184-0
© 2003 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Characterization of the O antigen gene cluster and structural analysis of the O antigen of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis

Joann L. Prior1, Richard G. Prior1, Paul G. Hitchen2, Helen Diaper1, Kate F. Griffin1, Howard R. Morris2,3, Anne Dell2 and Richard W. Titball1,4

1Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0JQ, UK 2Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK 3M-SCAN Mass Spectrometry Research and Training Centre, Silwood Park, Ascot SL5 7PZ, UK 4Department of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St., London WC1E 7HT, UK

Correspondence Joann L. Prior JLPRIOR{at}dstl.gov.uk

Received January 21, 2003
Accepted May 28, 2003

A gene cluster encoding enzymes involved in LPS O antigen biosynthesis was identified from the partial genome sequence of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis Schu S4. All of the genes within the cluster were assigned putative functions based on sequence similarity with genes from O antigen biosynthetic clusters from other bacteria. Ten pairs of overlapping primers were designed to amplify the O antigen biosynthetic cluster by PCR from nine strains of F. tularensis. Although the gene cluster was present in all strains, there was a size difference in one of the PCR products between subsp. tularensis strains and subsp. holarctica strains. LPS was purified from F. tularensis subsp. tularensis Schu S4 and the O antigen was shown by mass spectrometry to have a structure similar to that of F. tularensis subsp. holarctica strain 15. When LPS from F. tularensis subsp. tularensis Schu S4 was used to immunize mice that were then challenged with F. tularensis subsp. tularensis Schu S4, an extended time to death was observed.

Abbreviations: GalNAcAN, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galacturonamide; QuiNAc, 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-D-glucose; Qui4NFm, 4,6-dideoxy-4-formamido-D-glucose.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the sequence of the F. tularensis Schu S4 O antigen gene cluster is AY217763.




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