Mössbauer spectroscopy and electron paramagnetic resonance studies of iron metabolites inPseudomonas aeruginosa: Fe2+ and Fe3+ ferritin in57ferripyoverdine incubated cells and57ferric citrate fed cells |
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Authors: | Eugenie V Mielczarek Simon C Andrews Rivka Bauminger |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA;(2) Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK;(3) Racan Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
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Abstract: | Pseudomonas aeruginosa samples were studied using Mössbauer spectroscopy and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). Samples included whole cells, membranes, and soluble fractions from cells which had been grown with57ferric chloride,57ferric citrate or incubated with57ferripyoverdine. These experiments show for the first time thatP. aeruginosa can accumulate iron in a bacterioferritin when grown under conditions of iron limitation and incubated with its cognate ferrisiderophore, ferripyoverdine. Soluble fraction fromP. aeruginosa cells which were grown iron starved and incubated with57ferripyoverdine for 120 min showed the presence of both a ferric and ferrous complex whose Mössbauer spectra matched that of bacterioferritin extracted fromAzotobacter vinelandii and whose EPR spectra showed a characteristic ferritin-like resonance. A second soluble fraction sample from cells which had been grown with57ferric citrate also showed the presence of a species with the same EPR and Mössbauer parameters. In addition Western blotting confirmed the presence of bacterioferritin in the soluble fraction of the cells which had been incubated with ferripyoverdine. |
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Keywords: | Mö ssbauer EPR ferritin ferripyoverdine Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
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