Chemical structure of the cell-wall mannan of Candida albicans serotype A and its difference in yeast and hyphal forms
- 29 May 2007
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 404 (3), 365-372
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj20070081
Abstract
The structure of the cell-wall mannan from the J-1012 (serotype A) strain of the polymorphic yeast Candida albicans was determined by acetolysis under mild conditions followed by HPLC and sequential NMR experiments. The serotype A mannan contained beta-1,2-linked mannose residues attached to alpha-1,3-linked mannose residues and alpha-1,6-linked branching mannose residues. Using a beta-1,2-mannosyltransferase, we synthesized a three-beta-1,2-linkage-containing mannoheptaose and used it as a reference oligosaccharide for 1H-NMR assignment. On the basis of the results obtained, we derived an additivity rule for the 1H-NMR chemical shifts of the beta-1,2-linked mannose residues. The morphological transformation of Candida cells from the yeast form to the hyphal form induced a significant decrease in the phosphodiesterified acid-labile beta-1,2-linked manno-oligosaccharides, whereas the amount of acid-stable beta-1,2 linkage-containing side chains did not change. These results suggest that the Candida mannan in candidiasis patients contains beta-1,2-linked mannose residues and that they behave as a target of the immune system.Keywords
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