THE VIRULENCE-ASSOCIATED CHRYSOBACTIN IRON UPTAKE SYSTEM OF ERWINIA-CHRYSANTHEMI-3937 INVOLVES AN OPERON ENCODING TRANSPORT AND BIOSYNTHETIC FUNCTIONS

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FRANZA, T [1 ]
EXPERT, D [1 ]
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[1] INRA,PATHOL VEGETALE LAB,16 RUE CLAUDE BERNARD,F-75231 PARIS 05,FRANCE
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10.1128/jb.173.21.6874-6881.1991
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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The iron assimilation system of Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937 is mediated by the catechol-type siderophore chrysobactin and the outer membrane transport protein Fct. We generated a variety of subclones in high- and low-copy-number vectors from a wild-type recombinant cosmid shown previously to carry the gene cluster fct-cbsA, cbsB, cbsC, cbsE encoding chrysobactin transport and biosynthetic functions, respectively. We studied their expression in Escherichia coli enterobactin-deficient entA, entB, entC, and entE mutants. This provided evidence that the fct and cbs genes are regrouped within a single genetic unit of ca. 8 kb in the following order: fct, cbsC, cbsE, cbsB, and cbsA. The gene boundaries were determined, and the various recombinant plasmids were expressed in Escherichia coli minicells: CbsA and CbsC enzymatic activities were clearly identified as polypeptides with apparent molecular masses of 32,000 and 38,000, respectively.
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