The K46 and K5 capsular polysaccharides produced by Acinetobacter baumannii NIPH 329 and SDF have related structures and the side-chain non-ulosonic acids are 4-O-acetylated by phage-encoded O-acetyltransferases

• Johanna J. Kenyon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johanna J. Kenyon, Nikolay P. Arbatsky

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: johanna.kenyon@qut.edu.au

  Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1487-6105

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• Nikolay P. Arbatsky ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johanna J. Kenyon, Nikolay P. Arbatsky

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Mikhail M. Shneider,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation M. M. Shemyakin & Y. A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3768-3541

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• Anastasiya V. Popova,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia, State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Moscow Region, Russia

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• Andrei S. Dmitrenok,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Anastasiya A. Kasimova,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D. I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russia

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• Alexander S. Shashkov,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Ruth M. Hall ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2062-3312

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• Yuriy A. Knirel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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