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Journal of Bacteriology, July 2001, p. 4278-4287, Vol. 183, No. 14
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.14.4278-4287.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

The Bordetella bhu Locus Is Required for Heme Iron Utilization

Carin K. Vanderpool and Sandra K. Armstrong*

Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0312

Received 8 March 2001/Accepted 24 April 2001

Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica are capable of obtaining iron from hemin and hemoglobin. Genes encoding a putative bacterial heme iron acquisition system (bhu, for Bordetella heme utilization) were identified in a B. pertussis genomic sequence database, and the corresponding DNA was isolated from a virulent strain of B. pertussis. A B. pertussis bhuR mutant, predicted to lack the heme outer membrane receptor, was generated by allelic exchange. In contrast to the wild-type strain, bhuR mutant PM5 was incapable of acquiring iron from hemin and hemoglobin; genetic complementation of PM5 with the cloned bhuRSTUV genes restored heme utilization to wild-type levels. In parallel studies, B. bronchiseptica bhu sequences were also identified and a B. bronchiseptica bhuR mutant was constructed and confirmed to be defective in heme iron acquisition. The wild-type B. bronchiseptica parent strain grown under low-iron conditions produced the presumptive BhuR protein, which was absent in the bhuR mutant. Furthermore, production of BhuR by iron-starved B. bronchiseptica was markedly enhanced by culture in hemin-supplemented medium, suggesting that these organisms sense and respond to heme in the environment. Analysis of the genetic region upstream of the bhu cluster identified open reading frames predicted to encode homologs of the Escherichia coli ferric citrate uptake regulators FecI and FecR. These putative Bordetella regulators may mediate heme-responsive positive transcriptional control of the bhu genes.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, MMC 196 FUMC, 420 Delaware St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312. Phone: (612) 625-6947. Fax: (612) 626-0623. E-mail: sandra{at}lenti.med.umn.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, July 2001, p. 4278-4287, Vol. 183, No. 14
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.14.4278-4287.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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