Regulation of the Yersinia pestis Yfe and Ybt iron transport systems

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 275-283

  Perry, Robert D ^a   Abney, Jennifer ^a   Mier Jr , Ildefonso ^a   Lee, Yong ^a   Bearden, Scott W ^a   Fetherston, Jacqueline D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; IRON TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COENZYME A LIGASES; GENES, REPORTER; IRON; PHENOLS; PLASMIDS; SIDEROPHORES; THIAZOLES; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0038469574     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. Bearden, S.W., Fetherston, J.D., and Perry, R.D., 1997, Genetic organization of the yersiniabactin biosynthetic region and construction of avirulent mutants in Yersinia pestis. Infect. Immun. 65: 1659-1668.
2. Bearden, S.W., Staggs, T.M., and Perry, R.D., 1998, An ABC transporter system of Yersinia pestis allows utilization of chelated iron by Escherichia coli SAB11. J. Bacteriol. 180: 1135-1147.
3. Bearden, S.W., and Perry, R.D., 1999, The Yfe system of Yersinia pestis transports iron and manganese and is required for full virulence of plague. Mol. Microbiol. 32: 403-414.
4. Bobrov, A.G., Geoffroy, V.A., and Perry, R.D., 2002, Yersiniabactin production requires the thioesterase domain of HMWP2 and YbtD, a putative phosphopantetheinylate transferase. Infect. Immun. 70: 4204-4214.
5. Braun, V., 1997, Surface signaling: novel transcription initiation mechanism starting from the cell surface. Archives of Microbiology 167: 325-331.
6. Brickman, T.J., Kang, H.Y., and Armstrong, S.K., 2001, Transcriptional activation of Bordetella alcaligin siderophore genes requires the AlcR regulator with alcaligin as inducer. J. Bacteriol. 183: 483-489.
7. Buchrieser, C., Prentice, M., and Carniel, E., 1998, The 102-kilobase unstable region of Yersinia pestis comprises a high-pathogenicity island linked to a pigmentation segment which undergoes internal rearrangement. J. Bacteriol. 180: 2321-2329.
8. Carniel, E., D. Mazigh, D., and H. H. Mollaret, H.H., 1987, Expression of iron-regulated proteins in Yersinia species and their relation to virulence. Infect. Immun. 55: 277-280.
9. Fetherston, J.D., Lillard, J.W., Jr., and Perry, R.D., 1995, Analysis of the pesticin receptor from Yersinia pestis: role in iron-deficient growth and possible regulation by its siderophore. J. Bacteriol. 177: 1824-1833.
10. Fetherston, J.D., Bearden, S.W., and Perry, R.D., 1996, YbtA, an AraC-type regulator of the Yersinia pestis pesticin/yersiniabactin receptor. Mol. Microbiol. 22: 315-325.
11. Fetherston, J.D., Bertolino, V.J., and Perry, R.D., 1999, YbtP and YbtQ: two ABC transporters required for iron uptake in Yersinia pestis. Mol. Microbiol.32: 289-299.
12. Froehlich, B., Husmann, L., Caron, J., and Scott, J.R., 1994, Regulation of rns, a positive regulatory factor for pill of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 176: 5385-5392.
13. Furrer, J.L., Sanders, D.N., Hook-Barnard, I.G., and McIntosh, M.A., 2002, Export of the siderophore enterobactin in Escherichia coli: involvement of a 43 kDa membrane exporter. Mol. Microbiol. 44: 1225-1234.
14. Gehring, A.M., DeMoll, E., Fetherston, J.D., Mori, I., Mayhew, G.F., Blattner, F.R., Walsh, C.T., and Perry, R.D., 1998, Iron acquisition in plague: modular logic in enzymatic biogenesis of yersiniabactin by Yersinia pestis. Chem. Biol. 5: 573-586.
15. Geoffroy, V.A., Fetherston, J.D., and Perry, R.D., 2000. Yersinia pestis YbtU and YbtT are involved in synthesis of the siderophore yersiniabactin but have different effects on regulation. Infect. Immun. 68: 4452-4461.
16. Heinrichs, D.E., and Poole, K., 1996, PchR, a regulator of ferripyochelin receptor gene (fptA) expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, functions both as an activator and as a repressor. J. Bacteriol. 178: 2586-2592.
17. Perry, R.D., Balbo, P.B., Jones, H.A., Fetherston, J.D., and DeMoll, E., 1999, Yersiniabactin from Yersinia pestis: biochemical characterization of the siderophore and its role in iron transport and regulation. Microbiology 145: 1181-1190.
18. Perry, R.D., Bearden, S.W., and Fetherston, J.D., 2001, Iron and heine acquisition and storage systems of Yersinia pestis. Recent Res. Devel. Microbiol. 5: 13-27.
19. Rakin, A., Noelting, C., Schubert, S., and Heesemann, J., 1999, Common and specific characteristics of the high-pathogenicity island of Yersinia enterocolitica. Infect. Immun. 67: 5265-5274.
20. Staggs, T.M., Fetherston, J.D., and Perry, R.D., 1994, Pleiotropic effects of a Yersinia pestis fur mutation. J. Bacteriol. 176: 7614-7624.
21. Venturi, V., Weisbeek, P., and Koster, M., 1995, Gene regulation of siderophore-mediated iron acquisition in Pseudomonas: not only the Fur repressor. Mol. Microbiol. 17: 603-610.