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Siderophores (from the Greek: iron carrier) are low molecular mass (500–1500 Da) iron chelators that are synthesized in bacteria and fungi under conditions of iron deficiency. Siderophores exhibit extraordinarily high complex formation constants for ferric iron with β‐values ranging from 10 20 to approximately 10 50 . Fe 2+ ‐siderophores are some 20 orders of magnitude less stable than their Fe 3+ counterparts. The d5 electronic configuration of Fe 3+ rules out any crystal field stabilization energy and makes ferric iron complexes relatively labile with respect to isomerization and ligand exchange. Siderophores display a selectivity for iron that is reflected in the corresponding complex stability constants that are higher with Fe 3+ than with Al 3+ , or with bivalent cations like Ca 2+ , Cu 2+ or Zn 2+ . Microorganisms excrete desferrisiderophores in order to scavenge iron from the environment. The competition for iron by siderophores, the mechanisms of siderophore uptake through microbial membranes, and the intracellular pathways of siderophore‐iron utilization strongly depend on thermodynamic, kinetic, and structural features of the ferric iron siderophore complexes. The structural features of siderophores are diverse. The ligating groups contain oxygen atoms of hydroxamate, catecholate, α‐hydroxy carboxylic and salicylic acids, or oxazoline and thiazoline nitrogen. Reduction potentials of ferric siderophore complexes vary between −700 and −150 mV. In particular at the low potential end below −450 mV, special biological strategies of reductive iron removal are required because these potentials are too negative for typical cellular reductases. The coordination and redox chemistry of siderophores is also reflected in the mechanisms of siderophore‐mediated iron uptake in microorganisms. A classic example is the intracellular removal of iron from enterobactin. The permeation of cell walls or bacterial membranes by siderophores is in most microbes a highly specific process requiring an array of up to eight proteins. The advent of modern molecular biology delivered a cornucopia of methods enabling high‐yield production of specific gene products relevant to siderophore synthesis and transport, analyses of structure‐function relationships (employing site directed mutagenesis), and detailed insights into the regulation of the corresponding processes. One siderophore, ferrioxamine B, serves as a detoxifier in iron overload diseases and in the treatment of β‐thalassemia. Siderophores and siderophore analogs also play a role in MRI and are employed as basic models for actinide chelators in order to remove these metals from the environment or from a contaminated body.
Siderophores (from the Greek: iron carrier) are low molecular mass (500–1500 Da) iron chelators that are synthesized in bacteria and fungi under conditions of iron deficiency. Siderophores exhibit extraordinarily high complex formation constants for ferric iron with β‐values ranging from 10 20 to approximately 10 50 . Fe 2+ ‐siderophores are some 20 orders of magnitude less stable than their Fe 3+ counterparts. The d5 electronic configuration of Fe 3+ rules out any crystal field stabilization energy and makes ferric iron complexes relatively labile with respect to isomerization and ligand exchange. Siderophores display a selectivity for iron that is reflected in the corresponding complex stability constants that are higher with Fe 3+ than with Al 3+ , or with bivalent cations like Ca 2+ , Cu 2+ or Zn 2+ . Microorganisms excrete desferrisiderophores in order to scavenge iron from the environment. The competition for iron by siderophores, the mechanisms of siderophore uptake through microbial membranes, and the intracellular pathways of siderophore‐iron utilization strongly depend on thermodynamic, kinetic, and structural features of the ferric iron siderophore complexes. The structural features of siderophores are diverse. The ligating groups contain oxygen atoms of hydroxamate, catecholate, α‐hydroxy carboxylic and salicylic acids, or oxazoline and thiazoline nitrogen. Reduction potentials of ferric siderophore complexes vary between −700 and −150 mV. In particular at the low potential end below −450 mV, special biological strategies of reductive iron removal are required because these potentials are too negative for typical cellular reductases. The coordination and redox chemistry of siderophores is also reflected in the mechanisms of siderophore‐mediated iron uptake in microorganisms. A classic example is the intracellular removal of iron from enterobactin. The permeation of cell walls or bacterial membranes by siderophores is in most microbes a highly specific process requiring an array of up to eight proteins. The advent of modern molecular biology delivered a cornucopia of methods enabling high‐yield production of specific gene products relevant to siderophore synthesis and transport, analyses of structure‐function relationships (employing site directed mutagenesis), and detailed insights into the regulation of the corresponding processes. One siderophore, ferrioxamine B, serves as a detoxifier in iron overload diseases and in the treatment of β‐thalassemia. Siderophores and siderophore analogs also play a role in MRI and are employed as basic models for actinide chelators in order to remove these metals from the environment or from a contaminated body.
Siderophores (from the Greek: iron carrier) are low molecular mass (500–1500 Da) iron chelators that are synthesized in bacteria and fungi under conditions of iron deficiency. Siderophores exhibit extraordinarily high complex formation constants for ferric iron with β‐values ranging from 10 20 to approximately 10 50 . Fe 2+ ‐siderophores are some 20 orders of magnitude less stable than their Fe 3+ counterparts. The d5 electronic configuration of Fe 3+ rules out any crystal field stabilization energy and makes ferric iron complexes relatively labile with respect to isomerization and ligand exchange. Siderophores display a selectivity for iron that is reflected in the corresponding complex stability constants that are higher with Fe 3+ than with Al 3+ , or with bivalent cations like Ca 2+ , Cu 2+ or Zn 2+ . Microorganisms excrete desferrisiderophores in order to scavenge iron from the environment. The competition for iron by siderophores, the mechanisms of siderophore uptake through microbial membranes, and the intracellular pathways of siderophore‐iron utilization strongly depend on thermodynamic, kinetic, and structural features of the ferric iron siderophore complexes. The structural features of siderophores are diverse. The ligating groups contain oxygen atoms of hydroxamate, catecholate, α‐hydroxy carboxylic and salicylic acids, or oxazoline and thiazoline nitrogen. Reduction potentials of ferric siderophore complexes vary between −700 and −150 mV. In particular at the low potential end below −450 mV, special biological strategies of reductive iron removal are required because these potentials are too negative for typical cellular reductases. The coordination and redox chemistry of siderophores is also reflected in the mechanisms of siderophore‐mediated iron uptake in microorganisms. A classic example is the intracellular removal of iron from enterobactin. The permeation of cell walls or bacterial membranes by siderophores is in most microbes a highly specific process requiring an array of up to eight proteins. The advent of modern molecular biology delivered a cornucopia of methods enabling high‐yield production of specific gene products relevant to siderophore synthesis and transport, analyses of structure‐function relationships (employing site directed mutagenesis), and detailed insights into the regulation of the corresponding processes. One siderophore, ferrioxamine B, serves as a detoxifier in iron overload diseases and in the treatment of β‐thalassemia. Siderophores and siderophore analogs also play a role in MRI and are employed as basic models for actinide chelators in order to remove these metals from the environment or from a contaminated body.
Iron is an essential element in many biological systems, and in spite of its abundance (5% of the earth crust), its availability is dramatically limited by the very high insolubility of iron(III) at physiological pHs where the concentration of free iron(III) is less than 10−17 M, a value which is much too low to allow any possible growth to aerobic microorganisms. Iron metabolization by the microorganisms necessitates generally the biosynthesis of low molecular weight compounds (300 to 2000 Da) called siderophores. These molecules which are generally excreted into the culture medium, chelate very strongly iron(III), solubilize it and transport it into the cells using an ATP‐dependent high affinity transport system. For nearly fourty years, the structural studies on siderophores have shown a great diversity of structures for these iron‐chelating molecules synthesized by microorganisms. These structures are characterized by the presence of one, two and in most cases, three bidentate chelating groups, generally oxygenated, necessary for the formation of very stable hexacoordinated octahedric complexes between the siderophores and iron(III). These groups are generally either catecholates, or hydroxamates or hydroxyacids, but can be any other bidentate groups In what follows several typical examples of siderophores belonging to each of these categories are given. It is clear that considering the very high number of siderophores having so many different structures so far isolated and characterized (more than 200), we have restricted this report to the most representative structures of each category, with a special emphasis to pyoverdins, the fluorescent peptidic siderophores of the fluorescent pseudomonads. Similarly the siderophore‐mediated iron‐transport mechanisms of Gram‐negative bacteria described therafter will report mainly on those of Escherichia coli with a special emphasis to Pseudomonas when information is available. The pyoverdin‐mediated iron‐transport in fluorescent pseudomonads implies biochemical mechanisms which involve signal and energy exchanges between the two membranes across the periplasmic space. The energy transduction mechanism in the case of the pyoverdin‐mediated active transport in P. aeruginosa has not been completely elucidated so far. Nevertheless from the data obtained for ferric enterobactin and ferrichrome in E. coli, it is plausible that a common mechanism of transport can take place for all the enterobacteria. The key element of this mechanism is protein TonB in E. coli, head of a series of TonB proteins having a very close structure and characterized in P. putida WCS358 and P. aeruginosa ATCC 156942. The striking similarities existing between the various iron‐transport steps in these different bacterial species is highly in favour of a common energy‐dependent siderophore‐mediated iron‐transport mechanism in microorganisms.
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