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Biosynthesis of T1 Antigen in Salmonella: Biosynthesis in a Cell-Free System

^a Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

ABSTRACT

A particulate fraction from a T1 form of Salmonella typhimurium incorporated radioactivity from uridine diphosphate (UDP)-¹⁴C-glucose into products associated with the particulate enzyme. A major fraction of the incorporated radioactivity was found in the cell wall lipopolysaccharide fraction. Acid hydrolysis of incorporation products produced labeled galactose, ribose, and also glucose. The incorporation of glucose could be dissociated from the incorporation of galactose and ribose under certain conditions, and was assumed to represent incorporation into a polymer not related to T1 antigen. The incorporation of galactose and ribose probably represented the synthesis of T1 side chains of lipopolysaccharide, because (i) particulate fractions from non-T1 strains incorporated much less of these sugars and (ii) periodate oxidation and borohydride reduction converted a large portion of incorporated galactose residues into arabinose. The latter finding indicates that the galactose residues are galactofuranosides substituted either at C2 or C3; about 70% of the galactose residues in T1 side chains are known to be galactofuranosides substituted at C3. UDP-¹⁴C-galactose preparation used was not contaminated by UDP-¹⁴C-galactofuranose; therefore pyranose-to-furanose conversion must have taken place at some step during the reactions described above. The mechanism of conversion of galactose to ribose is not clear, but it was not found to involve a selective elimination of C1 or C6 of galactose or glucose.

¹ Present address: Central Public Health Laboratory, Mannerheimintie 166, Helsinki 28, Finland.

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