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strain 2308 produces brucebactin, a highly efficient catecholic siderophore

The GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AF361942.

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is known to produce 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate (2,3-DHBA) and to use this catechol as a siderophore to grow under iron-limited conditions. In this study a mutant (BAM41) is described that is deficient in siderophore production by insertion of Tn in the virulent strain 2308. This mutant was unable to grow on iron-deprived medium and its growth could not be restored by addition of 2,3-DHBA. Production of catecholic compounds by both the mutant and parental strains under iron-deprivation conditions was assayed by TLC. Two catecholic substances were identified in the supernatant of the parental strain 2308. The faster migrating spot showed the same retention factor ( ) as that of purified 2,3-DHBA. The mutant BAM41 overproduced 2,3-DHBA, but failed to form the slower migrating catechol. This defect could only be complemented by the addition of the slow-migrating catechol from strain 2308. The genomic region containing Tn in BAM41 was cloned and the position of the transposon was determined by nucleotide sequencing. The sequence revealed that the insertion had occurred at a gene with homology to , a locus involved in the late steps of the biosynthesis of the complex catecholic siderophore enterobactin. Intracellular survival and growth rates of the wild-type and mutant strains in mouse-derived J774 macrophages were similar, indicating that production of this siderophore was not essential in this model of infection. It is concluded that synthesizes a previously unknown and highly efficient catecholic siderophore, different from 2,3-DHBA, for which the name brucebactin is proposed.

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Keyword(s): 2,3-DHBA , 2,3-DHBA, 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate , CAS, chrome-azurol-S , catechol , DIP, 2,2-dipyridyl , EDDA, diethylenediamine di(o-hydroxyphenylacetic acid) , iron acquisition , macrophage and NTA Fe(III), ferric nitriletriacetate
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Brucella abortus strain 2308 produces brucebactin, a highly efficient catecholic siderophoreThe GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AF361942.
Microbiology 148, 353 (2002); https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-148-2-353
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