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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2016

The Siderophore Metabolome of Azotobacter vinelandii.

Oliver Baars, Xinning Zhang, François M M Morel, Mohammad R Seyedsayamdost

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Oliver BaarsDepartment of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Xinning ZhangDepartment of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
François M M MorelDepartment of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA morel@princeton.edu mrseyed@princeton.edu.
Mohammad R SeyedsayamdostDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA morel@princeton.edu mrseyed@princeton.edu.
Princeton University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we performed a detailed characterization of the siderophore metabolome, or "chelome," of the agriculturally important and widely studied model organism Azotobacter vinelandii. Using a new high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) approach, we found over 35 metal-binding secondary metabolites, indicative of a vast chelome in A. vinelandii. These include vibrioferrin, a siderophore previously observed only in marine bacteria. Quantitative analyses of siderophore production during diazotrophic growth with different sources and availabilities of Fe showed that, under all tested conditions, vibrioferrin was present at the highest concentration of all siderophores and suggested new roles for vibrioferrin in the soil environment. Bioinformatic searches confirmed the capacity for vibrioferrin production in Azotobacter spp. and other bacteria spanning multiple phyla, habitats, and lifestyles. Moreover, our studies revealed a large number of previously unreported derivatives of all known A. vinelandii siderophores and rationalized their origins based on genomic analyses, with implications for siderophore diversity and evolution. Together, these insights provide clues as to why A. vinelandii harbors multiple siderophore biosynthesis gene clusters. Coupled with the growing evidence for alternative functions of siderophores, the vast chelome in A. vinelandii may be explained by multiple, disparate evolutionary pressures that act on siderophore production.

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MetabolomeAzotobacter vinelandiiBacterial ProteinsBiosynthetic PathwaysChromatography, LiquidMass SpectrometrySiderophoresBacterial ProteinsSiderophores

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PMID26452553
PMCPMC4702634
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