Genetic organization of the yersiniabactin biosynthetic region and construction of avirulent mutants in Yersinia pestis

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Infect. Immun., May 1997, 1659-1668, Vol 65, No. 5
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Genetic organization of the yersiniabactin biosynthetic region and construction of avirulent mutants in Yersinia pestis

SW Bearden, JD Fetherston and RD Perry
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0084, USA.

We have identified an approximately 22-kb region of the pgm locus of Yersinia pestis KIM6+ which encodes a number of iron-regulated proteins involved in the biosynthesis of the Y. pestis cognate siderophore, yersiniabactin (Ybt), and which is located immediately upstream of the pesticin/yersiniabactin receptor gene (psn). Sequence analysis and the construction of insertion and deletion mutants allowed us to determine the putative location of the irp1 gene and the positions of irp2, ybtT, and ybtE within the ybt operon. Mutations in the irp1, irp2, or ybtE gene yielded strains defective in siderophore production. Mutant strains were unable to grow on iron-deficient media at 37 degrees C but could be cross-fed by culture supernatants from yersiniabactin- producing strains of Y. pestis grown under iron-limiting conditions. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of whole-cell extracts from Ybt+ and Ybt- strains grown in iron-deficient media revealed that expression of ybt-encoded proteins is not only iron regulated but also influenced by the presence of the siderophore itself. Finally, Y. pestis strains with mutations in either the psn or irp2 gene were avirulent in mice when inoculated subcutaneously.

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