Journal
BIOMETALS
Volume 20, Issue 3-4, Pages 393-403Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-007-9084-9
Keywords
iron transport; anguibactin; Vibrio anguillarum; receptor; TonB2; plug domain
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI19018] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM64600] Funding Source: Medline
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The fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum is the causative agent of a fatal hemorrhagic septicemia in salmonid fish. Many serotype O1 strains harbors a 65 Kbp plasmid (pJM1 encoding an iron sequestering system essential for virulence. The genes involved in the biosynthesis of the indigenous siderophore anguibactin are encoded by both the pJM1 plasmid and the chromosome, while those involved in the transport of the ferric-siderophore complex, including the outer membrane receptor, are plasmid-encoded. This work describes the role of specific amino acid residues of the outer membrane receptor FatA in the mechanism of transport of ferric-anguibactin. FatA modeling indicated that this protein has a 22 stranded beta-barrel blocked by the plug domain, the latter being formed by residues 51-154. Deletion of the plug domain resulted in a receptor unable to act as an open channel for the transport of the ferric anguibactin complex.
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