Nocardamine-dependent iron uptake in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: exclusive involvement of the FoxA outer membrane transporter.
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Date publication
septembre 2020
Journal
ACS chemical biology
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Mr HAMMANN Philippe
Tous les auteurs :
Normant V, Josts I, Kuhn L, Perraud Q, Fritsch S, Hammann P, Mislin GLA, Tidow H, Schalk IJ
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Résumé
Iron is a key nutrient for almost all living organisms. Paradoxically, it is poorly soluble and consequently poorly bioavailable. Bacteria have thus developed multiple strategies to access this metal. One of the most common consists of the use of siderophores, small compounds that chelate ferric iron with very high affinity. Many bacteria are able to produce their own siderophores or use those produced by other microorganisms (exosiderophores) in a piracy strategy. produces two siderophores, pyoverdine and pyochelin, and is also able to use a large panel of exosiderophores. We investigated the ability of to use nocardamine (NOCA) and ferrioxamine B (DFOB) as exosiderophores under iron-limited planktonic growth conditions. Proteomic and RT-qPCR approaches showed induction of the transcription and expression of the outer membrane transporter FoxA in the presence of NOCA or DFO in the bacterial environment. Expression of the proteins of the heme- or pyoverdine- and pyochelin-dependent iron uptake pathways was not affected by the presence of these two tris-hydroxamate siderophores. Fe uptake assays using mutants showed ferri-NOCA to be exclusively transported by FoxA, whereas ferri-DFO was transported by FoxA and at least one other unidentified transporter. The crystal structure of FoxA complexed with NOCA-Fe revealed very similar siderophore binding sites between NOCA-Fe and DFO-Fe. We discuss iron uptake by hydroxamate exosiderophores in cells in the light of these results.
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ACS Chem. Biol.. 2020 Sep 9;: