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Three bacteria, two of which were previously noted as active heterotrophic nitrifiers, were examined for their ability to grow and nitrify with the siderophore deferrioxamine B as the carbon source.Pseudomonas aureofaciens displayed limited growth and nitrification while a heterotrophic nitrifyingAlcaligenes sp. was without action concerning its metabolism of deferrioxamine B. The third bacterium, a unique Gram-negative soil isolate, was unable to nitrify deferrioxamine B but grew well when the siderophore was employed as the sole C source. The Gram-negative bacterium removed deferrioxamine B from the medium and left only residual amounts of the compound in solution at the termination of its growth. The organism was without action when the ferrated analogue of deferrioxamine B, ferrioxamine B, sereved as either the C source for growth, for metabolism by resting cells, or as the substrate for cell-free extracts. Deferrioxamine B, by contrast, was rapidly metabolized by resting cells. Cell-free extracts of the bacterium synthesized a monohydroxamate(s) when deferrioxamine B was the substrate. The catabolism of deferrioxamine B, which is synthesized by soil microbes, suggests that soil microflora have the ability to return deferrioxamine B, and perhaps other, siderophores to the C cycle.
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Abbreviations
- DFB:
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deferrioxamine B;
- FB:
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ferrioxamine B
- PhMeSO2F:
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phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride
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Castignetti, D., Siddiqui, A.S. The catabolism and heterotrophic nitrification of the siderophore deferrioxamine B. Biol Metals 3, 197–203 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01140579
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