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The pyocin Sa receptor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with ferripyoverdin uptake.

Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT

We have used Tn5 mutagenesis to obtain a mutant resistant to pyocin Sa. When grown in iron-deficient succinate medium this mutant lacked an 85-kDa iron-regulated outer membrane protein (IROMP), and expression of a 75-kDa IROMP was increased compared with that in the parent strain. The mutant was deficient in pyoverdin biosynthesis and showed a 95% decrease in transport of ferripyoverdin purified from the parent strain, suggesting that the 85-kDa IROMP is the specific receptor for ferripyoverdin and pyocin Sa. The mutant compensated for the deficiency in pyoverdin biosynthesis and transport by exhibiting a fourfold increase in ferripyochelin transport. The low-level transport of ferripyoverdin in the Sa-resistant mutant, which extended to heterologous pyoverdins from other strains, suggests that Pseudomonas aeruginosa has a second ferripyoverdin uptake system of lower affinity and broader specificity.

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