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Journal of Bacteriology, October 2005, p. 6701-6707, Vol. 187, No. 19
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.19.6701-6707.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

TolC Is Involved in Enterobactin Efflux across the Outer Membrane of Escherichia coli

Corinna Bleuel,2,{dagger} Cornelia Große,1,{dagger} Nadine Taudte,1 Judith Scherer,1 Dirk Wesenberg,2 Gerd J. Krauß,2 Dietrich H. Nies,1 and Gregor Grass1*

Institut für Mikrobiologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Halle, Germany,1 Institut für Biochemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Halle, Germany2

Received 17 May 2005/ Accepted 19 July 2005

Escherichia coli excretes the catecholate siderophore enterobactin in response to iron deprivation. While the mechanisms underlying enterobactin biosynthesis and ferric enterobactin uptake and utilization are widely understood, nearly nothing is known about how enterobactin is exported from the cell. Mutant and high-performance liquid chromatography analyses demonstrated that the outer membrane channel tunnel protein TolC but none of the respective seven resistance nodulation cell division (RND) proteins CusA, AcrB, AcrD, AcrF, MdtF (YhiV), or the twin RND MdtBC (YegNO) was essential for enterobactin export across the outer membrane. Mutant E. coli strains with additional deletion of tolC or the major facilitator entS were growth deficient in iron-depleted medium. Strains with deletion of tolC or entS, but not with deletion of genes encoding RND transporters, excreted very little enterobactin into the growth medium. Enterobactin excretion in E. coli is thus probably a two-step process involving the major facilitator EntS and the outer membrane channel tunnel protein TolC. Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR analysis of gene-specific transcripts showed no significant changes in tolC expression upon iron depletion. However, iron starvation led to increased expression of the RND gene mdtF and a decrease in acrD.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institut für Mikrobiologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Halle, Germany, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3, 06120 Halle, Germany. Phone: 49 (0345) 5526375. Fax: 49 (0345) 5527010. E-mail: g.grass{at}mikrobiologie.uni-halle.de.

{dagger} C.B. and C.G. contributed equally to this study.

Journal of Bacteriology, October 2005, p. 6701-6707, Vol. 187, No. 19
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.19.6701-6707.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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