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ArticlePloS one2019

Targeted lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic intermediate analysis with normal-phase liquid chromatography mass spectrometry.

William S Sawyer, Lisha Wang, Tsuyoshi Uehara, Pramila Tamrakar, Ramadevi Prathapam, Mina Mostafavi, Louis E Metzger, Brian Feng, Christopher M Baxter Rath

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 58% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

William S SawyerInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.
Lisha WangInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.
Tsuyoshi UeharaInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6994-4286
Pramila TamrakarInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.
Ramadevi PrathapamInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.
Mina MostafaviInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.
Louis E MetzgerInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.
Brian FengInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.
Christopher M Baxter RathInfectious Diseases, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-3513-1209
Novartis (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipopolysacharride (LPS) forms the outer leaflet of the outer membrane in Gram-negative bacteria and contributes to the permeability barrier and immune response. In this study, we established a method for monitoring the LPS biosynthetic intermediates of the Raetz pathway (lpxA-lpxK) in Escherichia coli. Metabolites from compound-treated cells and genetically-perturbed cells were extracted from whole cells and concentrated by mixed-mode weak anion exchange (WAX) solid-phase extraction (SPE) prior to analysis by normal phase (NP)LC-MS/MS. Data was normalized to cell density and an internal standard prior to comparison against untreated cells in order to determine fold accumulation and depletion for affected metabolites. Using this LC-MS/MS method, we were able to reliably monitor changes in levels of the LPS intermediates in response to compound-treatment and genetic modification. In addition, we found that deletion of periplasmic CDP-diacylglycerol pyrophosphatase dramatically increased levels of the UDP-containing LPS intermediates, suggesting the enzymatic breakdown during sample preparation. This assay allows for probing a key essential pathway in Gram-negative bacteria in an effort to discover antibacterial agents that inhibit enzymes in the LPS biosynthetic pathway.

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AcyltransferasesEscherichia coliLipopolysaccharidesPeriplasmacyl-(acyl-carrier-protein)-UDP-N-acetylglucosamine acyltransferaseAcyltransferasesLipopolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID30735516
PMCPMC6368293
OpenAlexW2911507343

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