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JOURNAL OF FUNGI
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jof7090768
Keywords
fungi; molds; Aspergillus fumigatus; iron; siderophore; xenosiderophores; transporter
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) doctoral program Host Response in Opportunistic Infections (HOROS) [W1253]
- Euregio Science Fund [SupErA IPN95]
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The study characterized siderophore use by Aspergillus fumigatus and substrate characteristics of Sit1 and Sit2, revealing the diversity and differences in siderophore transport in the pathogen, providing further insights into the mechanisms of siderophores in host pathogens.
Siderophore-mediated acquisition of iron has been shown to be indispensable for the virulence of several fungal pathogens, the siderophore transporter Sit1 was found to mediate uptake of the novel antifungal drug VL-2397, and siderophores were shown to be useful as biomarkers as well as for imaging of fungal infections. However, siderophore uptake in filamentous fungi is poorly characterized. The opportunistic human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus possesses five putative siderophore transporters. Here, we demonstrate that the siderophore transporters Sit1 and Sit2 have overlapping, as well as unique, substrate specificities. With respect to ferrichrome-type siderophores, the utilization of ferrirhodin and ferrirubin depended exclusively on Sit2, use of ferrichrome A depended mainly on Sit1, and utilization of ferrichrome, ferricrocin, and ferrichrysin was mediated by both transporters. Moreover, both Sit1 and Sit2 mediated use of the coprogen-type siderophores coprogen and coprogen B, while only Sit1 transported the bacterial ferrioxamine-type xenosiderophores ferrioxamines B, G, and E. Neither Sit1 nor Sit2 were important for the utilization of the endogenous siderophores fusarinine C and triacetylfusarinine C. Furthermore, A. fumigatus was found to lack utilization of the xenosiderophores schizokinen, basidiochrome, rhizoferrin, ornibactin, rhodotorulic acid, and enterobactin. Taken together, this study characterized siderophore use by A. fumigatus and substrate characteristics of Sit1 and Sit2.
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