TABLE 3.

Values of the parameters obtained from the HPLC-analyzed peptidoglycans purified from the collections studied in this work.

Collection	Relative abundance (mol%) of muropeptidea							Cross-linkb (%)	Peptidoglycan lengthc
	Mono	Di	Tri	D-D	Lpp	Anh	Penta
PAO1	65.46	32.51	2.04	1.55	4.86	4.25	2.83	36.58	23.54
PA14	66.08	32.37	1.56	1.73	3.75	4.25	1.50	35.48	24.11
Bacteremia	66.1 ± 2.6 (65.7)d	31.9 ± 2.2 (32.1)	2.0 ± 0.61 (2.2)	1.0 ± 0.86 (1.0)	5.6 ± 3.2 (5.1)	5.3 ± 1.1 (4.9)	1.8 ± 2.1 (0.9)	35.9 ± 3.1 (36.5)	20.3 ± 4.6 (20.9)
Early CF	63.7 ± 4.1 (64.2)	33.6 ± 3.0 (33.5)	2.7 ± 1.3 (2.3)	0.95 ± 1.3 (0.5)	4.9 ± 1.4 (4.8)	6.0 ± 1.6 (6.3)	2.3 ± 1.7 (1.9)	39.0 ± 5.3 (38.0)	19.6 ± 6.5 (16.9)
Late CF	64.9 ± 3.5 (65.8)	32.8 ± 3.0 (31.9)	2.2 ± 0.82 (2.0)	1.0 ± 0.83 (0.8)	5.0 ± 1.34 (4.4)	5.6 ± 1.6 (5.5)	3.0 ± 1.7 (2.4)	37.2 ± 4.0 (36.2)	19.8 ± 5.6 (18.3)
Collections’ mean ± SD	64.9 ± 1.2	32.7 ± 0.85	2.3 ± 0.36	0.99 ± 0.02	5.1 ± 0.37	5.6 ± 0.35	2.3 ± 0.60	37.3 ± 1.55	19.9 ± 0.36

^aMol%, molar fraction; Mono, monomers; Di, dimers; Tri, trimers; D-D, muropeptides having mDAP–mDAP crosslinking; Lpp, muropeptides bound to C-terminal Arg-Lys dipeptide of OprI lipoprotein; Anh, muropeptides having anhydro-1,6-anhydromuramic acid; Penta, muropeptides having a pentapeptide stem. ^bCross-link, degree of peptidoglycan cross-linking (percentage). ^cAverage number of disaccharide (N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid) units in the sacculus sugar chains of each strain. ^dThe values in the table are the means ± SDs obtained from each parameter and collection, whereas the numbers within parenthesis correspond to the medians. The last row correspond to the mean values ± SDs calculated from all the parameters and collections.