Iron uptake by Pasteurella piscicida and its role in pathogenicity for fish.
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Magariños, B
RESUMO
We evaluated the iron uptake mechanisms in Pasteurella piscicida strains as well as the effect of iron overload on the virulence of these strains for fish. With this aim, the capacity of the strains to obtain iron from transferrin and heme compounds as well as their ability to overcome the inhibitory activity of fish serum was analyzed. All the P. piscicida strains grew in the presence of the iron chelator ethylene-diamine-di (O-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid) or of human transferrin, which was used by a siderophore-mediated mechanism. The chemical tests and cross-feeding assays showed that P. piscicida produced a siderophore which was neither a phenolate nor a hydroxamate. Cross-feeding assays as well as preliminary chromatographic analysis suggest that this siderophore may be chemically related to multocidin. All the P. piscicida isolates utilized hemin and hemoglobin as an iron source, since the virulence of the strains increased when the fish were preinoculated with these compounds. This effect was stronger in the avirulent strains (50% lethal dose was reduced by 4 logs when fish were pretreated with hemin or hemoglobin). Only the pathogenic P. piscicida isolates were resistant to the bactericidal action of the fresh fish serum. The nonpathogenic strains grew in fish serum only when it was heat-inactivated or when it was supplemented with ferric ammonium citrate, hemin, or hemoglobin. In all the strains, at least three iron-regulated outer membrane proteins (IROMPs) (105, 118, and 145 kDa) were increased when the strains were cultured in iron-restricted medium.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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