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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1991 August; 57(8): 2246-2250

Production of the siderophore aerobactin by a halophilic pseudomonad.

Soil Microbial Systems Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705.

ABSTRACT

A bacterial strain, isolated from a cyanobacterial culture, was identified as Pseudomonas sp. strain X40. Under iron-limiting conditions, the Pseudomonas sp. produced aerobactin, a dihydroxamate siderophore previously found only in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Aerobactin was identified by electrophoretic mobility, spectrophotometric titration, proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, acid hydrolysis, and biological activity. Aerobactin was used as a siderophore in the Pseudomonas sp. and Escherichia coli. Two iron-repressed outer membrane proteins were observed in the Pseudomonas sp., neither of which had electrophoretic mobility identical to that of the aerobactin outer membrane receptor protein from E. coli. DNA hybridization assays showed no hybridization to the aerobactin genes from the E. coli plasmid pColV, indicating that the genetic determinants for aerobactin production by Pseudomonas strain X40 differ substantially from those found in the archetypic enteric plasmid pColV-K30.

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