Haemophilus somnus Possesses Two Systems for Acquisition of Transferrin-Bound Iron

AUTOR(ES)

Ekins, Andrew

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Haemophilus somnus strain 649 was found to acquire iron from ovine, bovine, and goat transferrins (Tfs). Expression of Tf receptors, as evaluated by solid-phase binding assays, required the organisms to be grown under iron-restricted conditions in the presence of Tf. Competition binding assays revealed the presence of two distinct Tf-binding receptor systems, one specific for bovine Tf and the other capable of binding all three ruminant Tfs. Affinity isolation procedures using total membranes yielded three putative bovine Tf-binding polypeptides and one putative ovine and goat Tf-binding polypeptide. PCR amplification followed by DNA sequence analyses revealed that H. somnus strain 649 possesses genes that encode a bipartite TbpA-TbpB receptor along with a homolog of the Histophilus ovis single-component TbpA receptor. Expression of TbpB and the single-component TbpA would appear to be subject to a form of phase variation involving homopolymeric nucleotide tracts within the structural genes.

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