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. 1993 Dec;61(12):5384–5387. doi: 10.1128/iai.61.12.5384-5387.1993

Demonstration of lipopolysaccharide with O-polysaccharide chains among different heat-stable serotypes of Campylobacter jejuni by silver staining of polyacrylamide gels.

D C Blake Jr 1, R G Russell 1
PMCID: PMC281326  PMID: 7693600

Abstract

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from three human and four monkey isolates of Campylobacter jejuni was extracted in high yields that revealed ladder-like structures in polyacrylamide gels by direct silver staining. These observations demonstrate that C. jejuni possesses LPS with O-chain repeating units typical of the family Enterobacteriaceae. The isolates showed differences in the number and electrophoretic mobility of bands in silver-stained gels.

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