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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Biol Chem. 2003 Feb 17;278(18):16356–16364. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M301255200

Fig. 1. Structures of R. leguminosarum and Escherichia coli lipid A and of the inner core oligosaccharides.

Fig. 1

The closely related structures of L-glycero-D-manno-heptose and D-mannose are highlighted for comparison. There is, however, no sequence similarity between the enzyme that attaches the innermost heptose in E. coli (WaaC) and the enzyme that attaches the mannose residue in R. leguminosarium (LpcC) (14, 19). Only the major molecular species are indicated, which, in the case of R. leguminosarum, is designated component D-1 (2, 8, 9, 12).