Article
Functional analysis of yersiniabactin transport genes of Yersinia enterocolitica.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 May 2001
Brem D, Pelludat C, Rakin A, Jacobi C A, Heesemann J
Abstract excerpt
Yersinia enterocolitica O:8, biogroup (BG) IB, strain WA-C carries a high-pathogenicity island (HPI) including iron-repressible genes (irp1-9, fyuA) for biosynthesis and uptake of the siderophore yersiniabactin (Ybt). The authors report the functional analysis of irp6,7,8, which show 98-99% similarity to the corresponding genes ybtP,Q,X on the HPI of Yersinia pestis. It was demonstrated that irp6,7 are involved...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Bacterial Proteins
- Biological Transport
- Culture Media
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Escherichia coli
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Hydroxybenzoates
- Indicators and Reagents
- Iron
- Iron-Binding Proteins
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C