title: Iron acquisition from heme and hemoglobin by a Serratia marcescens extracellular protein.
abstract: Several pathogenic bacteria are able to use heme and hemoproteins as iron sources independent of siderophore production by mechanisms involving outer membrane heme-binding proteins and heme transport systems. Here we show that Serratia marcescens has such a property and we identify an extracellular heme-binding protein, HasA (for heme acquisition system), allowing the release of heme from hemoglobin. This protein is secreted by S. marcescens under conditions of iron depletion and is essential for heme acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Physiologie Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 1300, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Létoffé
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ghigo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wandersman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006418:Heme / Q000378:metabolism*; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000378:metabolism*; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D012706:Serratia marcescens / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D006454:Hemoglobins; D006418:Heme; D007501:Iron