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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 185, Issue 5, Pages 1739-1744Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.5.1739-1744.2003
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Growth of Bartonella henselae is strongly heme dependent, and B. henselae is unable to synthesize heme itself. At least five outer membrane-associated proteins from B. henselae bind hemin, including the 31-kDa protein designated Pap31. The gene of this protein was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli M15(pREP4) and detected with monoclonal antibodies in the outer membrane fraction. Complementation of the hemA-deficient mutant E. coli K-12 EB53 (aroB tsx malT hemA) with pap31 demonstrated that this protein is involved in heme acquisition and may be an important virulence factor in the pathogenesis of B. henselae.
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