NDLI: BhuR, a Virulence-Associated Outer Membrane Protein of Bordetella avium, Is Required for the Acquisition of Iron from Heme and Hemoproteins

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Author	Murphy, Erin R. Sacco, Randy E. Dickenson, Amy Metzger, Daniel J. Hu, Yan Orndorff, Paul E. Connell, Terry D.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	Iron (Fe) is an essential element for most organisms which must be obtained from the local environment. In the case of pathogenic bacteria, this fundamental element must be acquired from the fluids and tissues of the infected host. A variety of systems have evolved in bacteria for efficient acquisition of host-bound Fe. The gram-negative bacterium Bordetella avium, upon colonization of the avian upper respiratory tract, produces a disease in birds that has striking similarity to whooping cough, a disease caused by the obligate human pathogen Bordetella pertussis. We describe a B. avium Fe utilization locus comprised of bhuR and six accessory genes (rhuIR and bhuSTUV). Genetic manipulations of B. avium confirmed that bhuR, which encodes a putative outer membrane heme receptor, mediates efficient acquisition of Fe from hemin and hemoproteins (hemoglobin, myoglobin, and catalase). BhuR contains motifs which are common to bacterial heme receptors, including a consensus FRAP domain, an NPNL domain, and two TonB boxes. An N-terminal 32-amino-acid segment, putatively required for rhuIR-dependent regulated expression of bhuR, is present in BhuR but not in other bacterial heme receptors. Two forms of BhuR were observed in the outer membrane of B. avium: a 91-kDa polypeptide consistent in size with the predicted mature protein and a smaller 82-kDa polypeptide which lacks the 104 amino acids found at the N terminus of the 91-kDa form. A mutation in hemA was engineered in B. avium to demonstrate that the bacterium transports heme into the cytoplasm in a BhuR-dependent manner. The role of BhuR in virulence was established in turkey poults by use of a competitive-infection model.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/iai.70.10.5390-5403.2002
Ending Page	5403
Page Count	14
Starting Page	5390
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00199567
e-ISSN	10985522
Journal	Infection and Immunity
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	70
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology
Publisher Date	2002-10-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology
Subject Keyword	Immunology Microbiology Parasitology Infectious Diseases Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Infectious Diseases Parasitology Immunology Microbiology

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