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ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2021

Galactocerebroside biosynthesis pathways of Mycoplasma species: an antigen triggering Guillain-Barré-Stohl syndrome.

Erika Gaspari, Jasper J Koehorst, Joachim Frey, Vitor A P Martins Dos Santos, Maria Suarez-Diez

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Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Triggers of Guillain-Barré Syndrome:International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  2. Host immune dysfunction and Mycoplasma pneumoniae immune evasion: dual drivers of pathogenesis in Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  4. A genome-wide investigation ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Erika GaspariLaboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3354-9721
Jasper J KoehorstLaboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8172-8981
Joachim FreyVetsuisse, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9133-0280
Vitor A P Martins Dos SantosLaboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2352-9017
Maria Suarez-DiezLaboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5845-146X
Wageningen University & Research · NLLifeGlimmer (Germany) · DEUniversity of Bern · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae has been identified as a preceding factor of Guillain-Barré-Stohl syndrome. The Guillain-Barré-Stohl syndrome is triggered by an immune reaction against the major glycolipids and it has been postulated that M. pneumoniae infection triggers this syndrome due to bacterial production of galactocerebroside. Here, we present an extensive comparison of 224 genome sequences from 104 Mycoplasma species to characterize the genetic determinants of galactocerebroside biosynthesis. Hidden Markov models were used to analyse glycosil transferases, leading to identification of a functional protein domain, termed M2000535 that appears in about a third of the studied genomes. This domain appears to be associated with a potential UDP-glucose epimerase, which converts UDP-glucose into UDP-galactose, a main substrate for the biosynthesis of galactocerebroside. These findings clarify the pathogenic mechanisms underlining the triggering of Guillain-Barré-Stohl syndrome by M. pneumoniae infections.

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Guillain-Barre SyndromePneumonia, MycoplasmaGalactosylceramidesGlycolipidsHumansMycoplasma pneumoniaeGalactosylceramidesGlycolipids

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PMID33773097
PMCPMC8085918
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