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Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization
Iron is an essential element for the growth and development of virtually all living organisms. As iron acquisition is critical for the pathogenesis, a host defense strategy during infection is to sequester iron to restrict the growth of invading pathogens. To counteract this strategy, bacteria such...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4496571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00702 |
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author | León-Sicairos, Nidia Angulo-Zamudio, Uriel A. de la Garza, Mireya Velázquez-Román, Jorge Flores-Villaseñor, Héctor M. Canizalez-Román, Adrian |
author_facet | León-Sicairos, Nidia Angulo-Zamudio, Uriel A. de la Garza, Mireya Velázquez-Román, Jorge Flores-Villaseñor, Héctor M. Canizalez-Román, Adrian |
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description | Iron is an essential element for the growth and development of virtually all living organisms. As iron acquisition is critical for the pathogenesis, a host defense strategy during infection is to sequester iron to restrict the growth of invading pathogens. To counteract this strategy, bacteria such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus have adapted to such an environment by developing mechanisms to obtain iron from human hosts. This review focuses on the multiple strategies employed by V. parahaemolyticus to obtain nutritional iron from host sources. In these strategies are included the use of siderophores and xenosiderophores, proteases and iron-protein receptor. The host sources used by V. parahaemolyticus are the iron-containing proteins transferrin, hemoglobin, and hemin. The implications of iron acquisition systems in the virulence of V. parahaemolyticus are also discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-44965712015-07-27 Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization León-Sicairos, Nidia Angulo-Zamudio, Uriel A. de la Garza, Mireya Velázquez-Román, Jorge Flores-Villaseñor, Héctor M. Canizalez-Román, Adrian Front Microbiol Microbiology Iron is an essential element for the growth and development of virtually all living organisms. As iron acquisition is critical for the pathogenesis, a host defense strategy during infection is to sequester iron to restrict the growth of invading pathogens. To counteract this strategy, bacteria such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus have adapted to such an environment by developing mechanisms to obtain iron from human hosts. This review focuses on the multiple strategies employed by V. parahaemolyticus to obtain nutritional iron from host sources. In these strategies are included the use of siderophores and xenosiderophores, proteases and iron-protein receptor. The host sources used by V. parahaemolyticus are the iron-containing proteins transferrin, hemoglobin, and hemin. The implications of iron acquisition systems in the virulence of V. parahaemolyticus are also discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4496571/ /pubmed/26217331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00702 Text en Copyright © 2015 León-Sicairos, Angulo-Zamudio, de la Garza, Velázquez-Román, Flores-Villaseñor and Canizalez-Román. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology León-Sicairos, Nidia Angulo-Zamudio, Uriel A. de la Garza, Mireya Velázquez-Román, Jorge Flores-Villaseñor, Héctor M. Canizalez-Román, Adrian Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization |
title | Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization |
title_full | Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization |
title_fullStr | Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization |
title_full_unstemmed | Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization |
title_short | Strategies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization |
title_sort | strategies of vibrio parahaemolyticus to acquire nutritional iron during host colonization |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4496571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00702 |
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