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It is consisting of trisaccharide repeating unit, \u21923)-\u03b1-d-Fucp4NAc-(1\u21924)-\u03b2-d-ManpNAcA-(1\u21924)-\u03b1-d-GlcpNAc-(1\u2192, where prevailing forms include ECA linked to phosphatidylglycerol (ECAPG) and cyclic ECA (ECACYC). Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-associated form (ECALPS) has been proved to date only for rough Shigella sonnei phase II. Depending on the structure organization, ECA constitutes surface antigen (ECAPG and ECALPS) or maintains the outer membrane permeability barrier (ECACYC). The existence of LPS was hypothesized in the 1960\u201380s on the basis of serological observations. Only a few Escherichia coli strains (i.e., R1, R2, R3, R4, and K-12) have led to the generation of anti-ECA antibodies upon immunization, excluding ECAPG as an immunogen and conjecturing ECALPS as the only immunogenic form. Here, we presented a structural survey of ECALPS in E. coli R1, R2, R3, and R4 to correlate previous serological observations with the presence of ECALPS. The low yields of ECALPS were identified in the R1, R2, and R4 strains, where ECA occupied outer core residues of LPS that used to be substituted by O-specific polysaccharide in the case of smooth LPS. Previously published observations and hypotheses regarding the immunogenicity and biosynthesis of ECALPS were discussed and correlated with presented herein structural data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms21176038","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,23]],"date-time":"2020-08-23T21:28:06Z","timestamp":1598218086000},"page":"6038","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Lipopolysaccharide-Linked Enterobacterial Common Antigen (ECALPS) Occurs in Rough Strains of Escherichia coli R1, R2, and R4"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4057-2997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna","family":"Maciejewska","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Microbial Immunochemistry and Vaccines, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marta","family":"Kaszowska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Microbial Immunochemistry and Vaccines, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8963-3020","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wojciech","family":"Jachymek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Microbial Immunochemistry and Vaccines, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Czeslaw","family":"Lugowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Microbial Immunochemistry and Vaccines, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8081-7261","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jolanta","family":"Lukasiewicz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Microbial Immunochemistry and Vaccines, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"591","DOI":"10.1128\/br.40.3.591-632.1976","article-title":"Enterobacterial common antigen","volume":"40","author":"Makela","year":"1976","journal-title":"Bacteriol. 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