It is shown that Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 13525 and Pseudomonas chlororaphis ATCC 9446 produce identical pyoverdins and ferribactins. As the structures of these sidero phores are usually species or even strain specific this exception should be kept in mind in view of the reclassification of the genus Pseudomonas. From Pseudomonas chlororaphis an additional siderophore could be obtained which has the same peptide chain as the co-occur ring pyoverdins and ferribactin, but a chromophore which is typical for azotobactins from Azotobacter vinelandii.
By a feeding experiment with a 15N-labelled precursor it is shown that ferribactins are transformed into pyoverdins and thus are their biogenetic precursors.
From ferribactins which accompany pyoverdins in iron deficient cultures of fluorescent pseudomonads a subunit has been obtained formed by condensation of D-tyrosin with L-2,4-diaminobutyric acid to give 2-(1-R-amino-2-p-hydroxyphenylethyl)-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidine-4-S′-carboxylic acid (1). Evidence is presented that 1 is the precur or of the typical pyoverdin chromophore 7 a.
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