PUBLICATION
A mammalian siderophore synthesized by an enzyme with a bacterial homolog involved in enterobactin production
- Authors
- Devireddy, L.R., Hart, D.O., Goetz, D.H., and Green, M.R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100621-25
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Cell 141(6): 1006-1017 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- CHEMBIO, PROTEINS
- MeSH Terms
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- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Enterobactin/metabolism*
- Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism
- Gentisates/chemistry
- Gentisates/metabolism*
- Humans
- Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase/chemistry
- Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase/metabolism
- Iron/metabolism
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oxidative Stress
- Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors/metabolism
- Sequence Alignment
- Siderophores/metabolism*
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 20550936 Full text @ Cell
Citation
Devireddy, L.R., Hart, D.O., Goetz, D.H., and Green, M.R. (2010) A mammalian siderophore synthesized by an enzyme with a bacterial homolog involved in enterobactin production. Cell. 141(6):1006-1017.
Abstract
Intracellular iron homeostasis is critical for survival and proliferation. Lipocalin 24p3 is an iron-trafficking protein that binds iron through association with a bacterial siderophore, such as enterobactin, or a postulated mammalian siderophore. Here, we show that the iron-binding moiety of the 24p3-associated mammalian siderophore is 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,5-DHBA), which is similar to 2,3-DHBA, the iron-binding component of enterobactin. We find that the murine enzyme responsible for 2,5-DHBA synthesis, BDH2, is the homolog of bacterial EntA, which catalyzes 2,3-DHBA production during enterobactin biosynthesis. RNA interference-mediated knockdown of BDH2 results in siderophore depletion. Mammalian cells lacking the siderophore accumulate abnormally high amounts of cytoplasmic iron, resulting in elevated levels of reactive oxygen species, whereas the mitochondria are iron deficient. Siderophore-depleted mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos fail to synthesize heme, an iron-dependent mitochondrial process. Our results reveal features of intracellular iron homeostasis that are conserved from bacteria through humans.
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