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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 222, Issue 1, Pages 39-43Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00243-X
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norepinephrine; enterobactin; Escherichia coli O157 : H7; iron; autoinducer
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-44918] Funding Source: Medline
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Exposure of bacteria to members of the stress-associated family of catecholamine hormones, principally norepinephrine, has been demonstrated to increase both growth and production of virulence-related factors. Mutation of genes for enterobactin synthesis and uptake revealed an absolute requirement for enterobactin in norepinephrine-stimulated growth of Escherichia coli O157:H7. The autoinducer produced by norepinephrine-stimulated E. coli could not substitute for enterobactin. We also demonstrate that norepinephrine promotes iron shuttling between transferrin molecules, thereby enabling the bacterial siderophore enterobactin to more readily acquire iron for growth. These results suggest one of the possible mechanisms by which the hormonal output of stress may affect enterohaemorrhagic E. coli pathogenicity. (C) 2003 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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