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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1986 January; 51(1): 74-79

Interactions between clay minerals and siderophores affect the respiration of Histoplasma capsulatum.

ABSTRACT

The reduction in the respiration of Histoplasma capsulatum in broth culture caused by montmorillonite appeared to be the result, in part, of the interference by the clay with the iron nutrition of the fungus. This interference was apparently the result of the adsorption by the clay of the iron-transporting siderophore (deferricoprogen B) produced by the fungus, as the reduction in respiration was partially alleviated by the addition of foreign siderophores. Neither kaolinite nor attapulgite (palygorskite) appeared to adsorb significant amounts of the siderophores, probably because of the low cation exchange capacity and specific surface area of kaolinite and the inaccessibility of adsorption sites in the fibrous attapulgite. These observations, in addition to the adhesion of montmorillonite to the hyphae, suggest mechanisms that may explain the discrete geographic distribution of this fungus, which is pathogenic to humans and which has been isolated essentially only from soils that do not contain montmorillonite.

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