NDLI: The 58-Kilodalton Major Virulence Factor of Francisella tularensis Is Required for Efficient Utilization of Iron▿

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Author	Lindgren, Helena Honn, Marie Igor, Golovlev Konstantin, Kadzhaev Conlan, Wayne Sjöstedt, Anders
Abstract	We investigated the role of the 58-kDa FTT0918 protein in the iron metabolism of Francisella tularensis. The phenotypes of SCHU S4, a prototypic strain of F. tularensis subsp. tularensis, and the ΔFTT0918 and ΔfslA isogenic mutants were analyzed. The gene product missing in the ΔfslA mutant is responsible for synthesis of a siderophore. When grown in broth with various iron concentrations, the two deletion mutants generally reached lower maximal densities than SCHU S4. The ΔFTT0918 mutant, but not the ΔfslA mutant, upregulated the genes of the F. tularensis siderophore locus (fsl) operon even at high iron concentrations. A chrome azurol sulfonate plate assay confirmed siderophore production by all strains except the ΔfslA strain. In a cross-feeding experiment using medium devoid of free iron, SCHU S4 promoted growth of the ΔfslA strain but not of the ΔFTT0918 strain. The sensitivity of SCHU S4 and the ΔFTT0918 and ΔfslA strains to streptonigrin demonstrated that the ΔFTT0918 strain contained a smaller free intracellular iron pool and that the ΔfslA strain contained a larger one than SCHU S4. In contrast to the marked attenuation of the ΔFTT0918 strain, the ΔfslA strain was as virulent as SCHU S4 in a mouse model. Altogether, the data demonstrate that the FTT0918 protein is required for F. tularensis to utilize iron bound to siderophores and that it likely has a role also in siderophore-independent iron acquisition. We suggest that the FTT0918 protein be designated Fe utilization protein A, FupA.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00702-09
Starting Page	4429
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ISSN	10985522
e-ISSN	10985522
Journal	Infection and Immunity
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	77
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Publisher Date	2009-10-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Infectious Diseases Parasitology Immunology Microbiology

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