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Gomes AF, Sousa E, Resende DISP. A Practical Toolkit for the Detection, Isolation, Quantification, and Characterization of Siderophores and Metallophores in Microorganisms. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:26863-26877. [PMID: 38947835 PMCID: PMC11209696 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c03042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
Abstract
Siderophores are well-recognized low-molecular-weight compounds produced by numerous microorganisms to acquire iron from the surrounding environments. These secondary metabolites can form complexes with other metals besides iron, forming soluble metallophores; because of that, they are widely investigated in either the medicinal or environmental field. One of the bottlenecks of siderophore research is related to the identification of new siderophores from microbial sources. Herein we have compiled a comprehensive range of standard and updated methodologies that have been developed over the past few years to provide a comprehensive toolbox in this area to current researchers.
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- Ana F.
R. Gomes
- LQOF
- Laboratório de Química Orgânica e Farmacêutica,
Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal
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- LQOF
- Laboratório de Química Orgânica e Farmacêutica,
Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
- CIIMAR-
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal
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- LQOF
- Laboratório de Química Orgânica e Farmacêutica,
Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
- CIIMAR-
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal
- ICBAS
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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Vitale GA, Geibel C, Minda V, Wang M, Aron AT, Petras D. Connecting metabolome and phenotype: recent advances in functional metabolomics tools for the identification of bioactive natural products. Nat Prod Rep 2024; 41:885-904. [PMID: 38351834 PMCID: PMC11186733 DOI: 10.1039/d3np00050h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
Abstract
Covering: 1995 to 2023Advances in bioanalytical methods, particularly mass spectrometry, have provided valuable molecular insights into the mechanisms of life. Non-targeted metabolomics aims to detect and (relatively) quantify all observable small molecules present in a biological system. By comparing small molecule abundances between different conditions or timepoints in a biological system, researchers can generate new hypotheses and begin to understand causes of observed phenotypes. Functional metabolomics aims to investigate the functional roles of metabolites at the scale of the metabolome. However, most functional metabolomics studies rely on indirect measurements and correlation analyses, which leads to ambiguity in the precise definition of functional metabolomics. In contrast, the field of natural products has a history of identifying the structures and bioactivities of primary and specialized metabolites. Here, we propose to expand and reframe functional metabolomics by integrating concepts from the fields of natural products and chemical biology. We highlight emerging functional metabolomics approaches that shift the focus from correlation to physical interactions, and we discuss how this allows researchers to uncover causal relationships between molecules and phenotypes.
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- Giovanni Andrea Vitale
- CMFI Cluster of Excellence, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Medicine, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- CMFI Cluster of Excellence, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Medicine, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Division of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Denver, Denver, USA.
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Denver, Denver, USA.
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- CMFI Cluster of Excellence, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Medicine, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
- Department of Biochemistry, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA.
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French KS, Chukwuma E, Linshitz I, Namba K, Duckworth OW, Cubeta MA, Baars O. Inactivation of siderophore iron-chelating moieties by the fungal wheat root symbiont Pyrenophora biseptata. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2024; 16:e13234. [PMID: 38240404 PMCID: PMC10866069 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
Abstract
We investigated the ability of four plant and soil-associated fungi to modify or degrade siderophore structures leading to reduced siderophore iron-affinity in iron-limited and iron-replete cultures. Pyrenophora biseptata, a melanized fungus from wheat roots, was effective in inactivating siderophore iron-chelating moieties. In the supernatant solution, the tris-hydroxamate siderophore desferrioxamine B (DFOB) underwent a stepwise reduction of the three hydroxamate groups in DFOB to amides leading to a progressive loss in iron affinity. A mechanism is suggested based on the formation of transient ferrous iron followed by reduction of the siderophore hydroxamate groups during fungal high-affinity reductive iron uptake. P. biseptata also produced its own tris-hydroxamate siderophores (neocoprogen I and II, coprogen and dimerum acid) in iron-limited media and we observed loss of hydroxamate chelating groups during incubation in a manner analogous to DFOB. A redox-based reaction was also involved with the tris-catecholate siderophore protochelin in which oxidation of the catechol groups to quinones was observed. The new siderophore inactivating activity of the wheat symbiont P. biseptata is potentially widespread among fungi with implications for the availability of iron to plants and the surrounding microbiome in siderophore-rich environments.
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- Katie S. French
- Department of Entomology and Plant PathologyNorth Carolina State University, Center for Integrated Fungal ResearchRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA
- Present address:
Department of Soil ScienceUniversity of ArkansasFayettevilleArkansasUSA
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- Department of ChemistryNorth Carolina State UniversityRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMarylandUSA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical SciencesTokushima UniversityTokushimaJapan
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- Department of Crop and Soil SciencesNorth Carolina State UniversityRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant PathologyNorth Carolina State University, Center for Integrated Fungal ResearchRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant PathologyNorth Carolina State University, Center for Integrated Fungal ResearchRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA
- Department of ChemistryNorth Carolina State UniversityRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA
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Moffett JW, Boiteau RM. Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions. ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE 2024; 16:577-599. [PMID: 37722713 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-033023-083652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
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The speciation of most biologically active trace metals in seawater is dominated by complexation by organic ligands. This review traces the history of work in this area, from the early observations that showed surprisingly poor recoveries using metal preconcentration protocols to the present day, where advances in mass spectroscopy and stable isotope geochemistry are providing new insights into the structure, origin, fate, and biogeochemical impact of organic ligands. Many long-standing hypotheses about the specific biological origin of ligands such as siderophores in seawater are finally being validated. This work has revealed the complexity of organic complexation, with multiple ligands and, in some cases, timescales of ligand exchange that are much slower than originally thought. The influence of organic complexation on scavenging is now a key parameter in biogeochemical models of biologically essential metals, especially iron. New insights about the sources and sinks of ligands are required to enhance the usefulness of these models.
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- James W Moffett
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA;
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- College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
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Murray KJ, Villalta PW, Griffin TJ, Balbo S. Discovery of Modified Metabolites, Secondary Metabolites, and Xenobiotics by Structure-Oriented LC-MS/MS. Chem Res Toxicol 2023; 36:1666-1682. [PMID: 37862059 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.3c00209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Exogenous compounds and metabolites derived from therapeutics, microbiota, or environmental exposures directly interact with endogenous metabolic pathways, influencing disease pathogenesis and modulating outcomes of clinical interventions. With few spectral library references, the identification of covalently modified biomolecules, secondary metabolites, and xenobiotics is a challenging task using global metabolomics profiling approaches. Numerous liquid chromatography-coupled mass spectrometry (LC-MS) small molecule analytical workflows have been developed to curate global profiling experiments for specific compound groups of interest. These workflows exploit shared structural moiety, functional groups, or elemental composition to discover novel and undescribed compounds through nontargeted small molecule discovery pipelines. This Review introduces the concept of structure-oriented LC-MS discovery methodology and aims to highlight common approaches employed for the detection and characterization of covalently modified biomolecules, secondary metabolites, and xenobiotics. These approaches represent a combination of instrument-dependent and computational techniques to rapidly curate global profiling experiments to detect putative ions of interest based on fragmentation patterns, predictable phase I or phase II metabolic transformations, or rare elemental composition. Application of these methods is explored for the detection and identification of novel and undescribed biomolecules relevant to the fields of toxicology, pharmacology, and drug discovery. Continued advances in these methods expand the capacity for selective compound discovery and characterization that promise remarkable insights into the molecular interactions of exogenous chemicals with host biochemical pathways.
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- Kevin J Murray
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, College of Biological Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, College of Biological Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Timofeeva AM, Galyamova MR, Sedykh SE. Bacterial Siderophores: Classification, Biosynthesis, Perspectives of Use in Agriculture. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:plants11223065. [PMID: 36432794 PMCID: PMC9694258 DOI: 10.3390/plants11223065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Siderophores are synthesized and secreted by many bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and plants for Fe (III) chelation. A variety of plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) colonize the rhizosphere and contribute to iron assimilation by plants. These microorganisms possess mechanisms to produce Fe ions under iron-deficient conditions. Under appropriate conditions, they synthesize and release siderophores, thereby increasing and regulating iron bioavailability. This review focuses on various bacterial strains that positively affect plant growth and development through synthesizing siderophores. Here we discuss the diverse chemical nature of siderophores produced by plant root bacteria; the life cycle of siderophores, from their biosynthesis to the Fe-siderophore complex degradation; three mechanisms of siderophore biosynthesis in bacteria; the methods for analyzing siderophores and the siderophore-producing activity of bacteria and the methods for screening the siderophore-producing activity of bacterial colonies. Further analysis of biochemical, molecular-biological, and physiological features of siderophore synthesis by bacteria and their use by plants will allow one to create effective microbiological preparations for improving soil fertility and increasing plant biomass, which is highly relevant for sustainable agriculture.
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- Anna M. Timofeeva
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Center for Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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Martinet L, Baiwir D, Mazzucchelli G, Rigali S. Structure of New Ferroverdins Recruiting Unconventional Ferrous Iron Chelating Agents. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12060752. [PMID: 35740878 PMCID: PMC9221444 DOI: 10.3390/biom12060752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Revised: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Ferroverdins are ferrous iron (Fe2+)-nitrosophenolato complexes produced by a few Streptomyces species as a response to iron overload. Previously, three ferroverdins were identified: ferroverdin A, in which three molecules of p-vinylphenyl-3-nitroso-4-hydroxybenzoate (p-vinylphenyl-3,4-NHBA) are recruited to bind Fe2+, and Ferroverdin B and Ferroverdin C, in which one molecule of p-vinylphenyl-3,4-NHBA is substituted by hydroxy-p-vinylphenyl-3,4-NHBA, and by carboxy-p-vinylphenyl-3,4-NHBA, respectively. These molecules, especially ferroverdin B, are potent inhibitors of the human cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) and therefore candidate hits for the development of drugs that increase the serum concentration of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, thereby diminishing the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. In this work, we used high-resolution mass spectrometry combined with tandem mass spectrometry to identify 43 novel ferroverdins from the cytosol of two Streptomyces lunaelactis species. For 13 of them (designated ferroverdins C2, C3, D, D2, D3, E, F, G, H, CD, DE, DF, and DG), we could elucidate their structure, and for the other 17 new ferroverdins, ambiguity remains for one of the three ligands. p-formylphenyl-3,4-NHBA, p-benzoic acid-3,4-NHBA, 3,4-NHBA, p-phenylpropionate-3,4-NHBA, and p-phenyacetate-3,4-NHBA were identified as new alternative chelators for Fe2+-binding, and two compounds (C3 and D3) are the first reported ferroverdins that do not recruit p-vinylphenyl-3,4-NHBA. Our work thus uncovered putative novel CETP inhibitors or ferroverdins with novel bioactivities.
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- Loïc Martinet
- InBioS, Center for Protein Engineering, University of Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
- Hedera-22, Boulevard du Rectorat 27b, B-4000 Liege, Belgium;
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- GIGA Proteomics Facility, University of Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium;
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- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, MolSys Research Unit, University of Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium;
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- InBioS, Center for Protein Engineering, University of Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
- Hedera-22, Boulevard du Rectorat 27b, B-4000 Liege, Belgium;
- Correspondence:
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Manck LE, Park J, Tully BJ, Poire AM, Bundy RM, Dupont CL, Barbeau KA. Petrobactin, a siderophore produced by Alteromonas, mediates community iron acquisition in the global ocean. THE ISME JOURNAL 2022; 16:358-369. [PMID: 34341506 PMCID: PMC8776838 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01065-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
It is now widely accepted that siderophores play a role in marine iron biogeochemical cycling. However, the mechanisms by which siderophores affect the availability of iron from specific sources and the resulting significance of these processes on iron biogeochemical cycling as a whole have remained largely untested. In this study, we develop a model system for testing the effects of siderophore production on iron bioavailability using the marine copiotroph Alteromonas macleodii ATCC 27126. Through the generation of the knockout cell line ΔasbB::kmr, which lacks siderophore biosynthetic capabilities, we demonstrate that the production of the siderophore petrobactin enables the acquisition of iron from mineral sources and weaker iron-ligand complexes. Notably, the utilization of lithogenic iron, such as that from atmospheric dust, indicates a significant role for siderophores in the incorporation of new iron into marine systems. We have also detected petrobactin, a photoreactive siderophore, directly from seawater in the mid-latitudes of the North Pacific and have identified the biosynthetic pathway for petrobactin in bacterial metagenome-assembled genomes widely distributed across the global ocean. Together, these results improve our mechanistic understanding of the role of siderophore production in iron biogeochemical cycling in the marine environment wherein iron speciation, bioavailability, and residence time can be directly influenced by microbial activities.
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- Lauren E Manck
- Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Environment and Sustainability, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Environment and Sustainability, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Human Health, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Synthetic Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Aron AT, Petras D, Schmid R, Gauglitz JM, Büttel I, Antelo L, Zhi H, Nuccio SP, Saak CC, Malarney KP, Thines E, Dutton RJ, Aluwihare LI, Raffatellu M, Dorrestein PC. Native mass spectrometry-based metabolomics identifies metal-binding compounds. Nat Chem 2022; 14:100-109. [PMID: 34795435 PMCID: PMC8959065 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00803-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Although metals are essential for the molecular machineries of life, systematic methods for discovering metal-small molecule complexes from biological samples are limited. Here, we describe a two-step native electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry method, in which post-column pH adjustment and metal infusion are combined with ion identity molecular networking, a rule-based data analysis workflow. This method enabled the identification of metal-binding compounds in complex samples based on defined mass (m/z) offsets of ion species with the same chromatographic profiles. As this native electrospray metabolomics approach is suited to the use of any liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry system to explore the binding of any metal, this method has the potential to become an essential strategy for elucidating metal-binding molecules in biology.
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- Allegra T. Aron
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Present affiliation: CMFI Cluster of Excellence, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Münster, Münster, D-48149, Germany
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Present affiliation: Sapient Bioanalytics, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology, Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 17, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- Institute of Biotechnology and Drug Research (IBWF gGmbH), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 17, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology, Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 17, Mainz D-55128, Germany,Institute of Biotechnology and Drug Research (IBWF gGmbH), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 17, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Chiba University-University of California San Diego Center for Mucosal Immunology, Allergy, and Vaccines (CU-UCSD cMAV), La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America,Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA,Correspondence to
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SHIMIZU N, MATSUMURA T, YAMASHITA K, MIYAKE T, SAWADA H. Analyses of Iridium(III) and Ruthenium(II) Phosphorescent Complexes with LC-TOFMS and LC-MS/MS. BUNSEKI KAGAKU 2021. [DOI: 10.2116/bunsekikagaku.70.481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Egbers PH, Harder T, Koch BP, Tebben J. Siderophore purification with titanium dioxide nanoparticle solid phase extraction. Analyst 2020; 145:7303-7311. [PMID: 32901634 DOI: 10.1039/d0an00949k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Siderophores are metal chelators produced by microorganisms to facilitate binding and uptake of iron. The isolation and characterization of siderophores are impeded by typically low siderophore yields and the complexity of siderophore-containing extracts generated with traditional purification methods. We investigated titanium dioxide nanoparticle solid-phase extraction (TiO2 NP SPE) as a technique to selectively concentrate and purify siderophores from complex matrices for subsequent LC-MS detection and identification. TiO2 NP SPE showed a high binding capacity (15.7 ± 0.2 μmol mg-1 TiO2) for the model siderophore desferrioxamine B (DFOB) and proved robust to pH changes and the presence of EDTA. These are significant advances in comparison to immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC). The TiO2 NP SPE was highly selective and recovered 77.6 ± 6.2% of DFOB spiked to a compositionally complex bacterial culture supernatant. The simple clean-up procedure removed the majority of contaminants and allowed direct detection of siderophores from the LC-MS base peak chromatogram. The 'untargeted' purification and analysis of an untreated supernatant of iron-deprived bacterial culture allowed for the direct identification of two known and three novel ferrioxamines. Thus, TiO2 NP SPE in combination with LC-MS offers great potential as a discovery platform for the purification and subsequent quantification or identification of novel siderophores of microbial origin.
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- Philipp H Egbers
- University of Bremen, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Leobener Straße 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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Rai V, Fisher N, Duckworth OW, Baars O. Extraction and Detection of Structurally Diverse Siderophores in Soil. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:581508. [PMID: 33042099 PMCID: PMC7527475 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.581508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Although the biochemistry of bacterial and fungal siderophores has been intensively studied in laboratory cultures, their distribution and impacts on nutrient cycling and microbial communities in soils remain poorly understood. The detection of siderophores in soil is an analytical challenge because of the complexity of the soil matrix and their structural diversity. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is a suitable method for the sensitive analysis of siderophores in complex samples; however, siderophore extraction into liquid phases for analysis by LC-MS is problematic because of their adsorption to soil particles and organic matter. To determine extraction efficiencies of structurally diverse siderophores, spike-recovery experiments were set up with standards representing the three main siderophore classes: the hydroxamate desferrioxamine B (DFOB), the α-hydroxycarboxylate rhizoferrin, and the catecholate protochelin. Previously used solvent extractions with water or methanol recovered only a small fraction (< 35%) of siderophores, including < 5% for rhizoferrin and protochelin. We designed combinatorial chemical extractions (22 total solutions) to target siderophores associated with different soil components. A combination of calcium chloride and ascorbate achieved high and, for some soils, quantitative extraction of DFOB and rhizoferrin. Protochelin analysis was complicated by potential fast oxidation and interactions with colloidal soil components. Using the optimized extraction method, we detected α-hydroxycarboxylate type siderophores (viz. rhizoferrin, vibrioferrin, and aerobactin) in soil for the first time. Concentrations reached 461 pmol g-1, exceeding previously reported concentrations of siderophores in soil and suggesting a yet unrecognized importance of α-hydroxycarboxylate siderophores for biological interactions and biogeochemical processes in soil.
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- Vineeta Rai
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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Novák J, Škríba A, Havlíček V. CycloBranch 2: Molecular Formula Annotations Applied to imzML Data Sets in Bimodal Fusion and LC-MS Data Files. Anal Chem 2020; 92:6844-6849. [PMID: 32338876 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Natural product chemistry, microbiology, and food, human, and plant metabolomics represent a few sources of complex metabolomics data generated by mass spectrometry. Among the medley of software tools used to handle these data sets, no universal tool can qualitatively, quantitatively, or statistically address major biological questions or tasks. CycloBranch 2, an open and platform-free software, at least now provides the de novo generation of molecular formulas of unknown compounds in both liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry and mass spectrometry imaging datafiles. For imaging files, this database-free approach was documented in the bimodal image fusion and characterization of three small molecules, including metallophores. The fine isotope ratio data filtering step distinguished 34S/13C2 and 41K/13C2 features. The standalone software package is implemented in C++ and can be downloaded from https://ms.biomed.cas.cz/cyclobranch/ and used under GNU General Public License.
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- Jiří Novák
- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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Zhang X, Baars O, Morel FMM. Genetic, structural, and functional diversity of low and high-affinity siderophores in strains of nitrogen fixing Azotobacter chroococcum. Metallomics 2020; 11:201-212. [PMID: 30444515 DOI: 10.1039/c8mt00236c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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To increase iron (Fe) bioavailability in surface soils, microbes secrete siderophores, chelators with widely varying Fe affinities. Strains of the soil bacterium Azotobacter chroococcum (AC), plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria used as agricultural inoculants, require high Fe concentrations for aerobic respiration and nitrogen fixation. Recently, A. chroococcum str. NCIMB 8003 was shown to synthesize three siderophore classes: (1) vibrioferrin, a low-affinity α-hydroxy carboxylate (pFe = 18.4), (2) amphibactins, high-affinity tris-hydroxamates, and (3) crochelin A, a high-affinity siderophore with mixed Fe-chelating groups (pFe = 23.9). The relevance and specific functions of these siderophores in AC strains remain unclear. We analyzed the genome and siderophores of a second AC strain, A. chroococcum str. B3, and found that it also produces vibrioferrin and amphibactins, but not crochelin A. Genome comparisons indicate that vibrioferrin production is a vertically inherited, conserved strategy for Fe uptake in A. chroococcum and other species of Azotobacter. Amphibactin and crochelin biosynthesis reflects a more complex evolutionary history, shaped by vertical gene transfer, gene gain and loss through recombination at a genomic hotspot. We found conserved patterns of low vs. high-affinity siderophore production across strains: the low-affinity vibrioferrin was produced by mildly Fe limited cultures. As cells became more severely Fe starved, vibrioferrin production decreased in favor of high-affinity amphibactins (str. B3, NCIMB 8003) and crochelin A (str. NCIMB 8003). Our results show the evolution of low and high-affinity siderophore families and conserved patterns for their production in response to Fe bioavailability in a common soil diazotroph.
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- Xinning Zhang
- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA.
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Reyes C, Hodgskiss LH, Baars O, Kerou M, Bayer B, Schleper C, Kraemer SM. Copper limiting threshold in the terrestrial ammonia oxidizing archaeon Nitrososphaera viennensis. Res Microbiol 2020; 171:134-142. [PMID: 31991171 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2020.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 12/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA) inhabiting soils have a central role in the global nitrogen cycle. Copper (Cu) is central to many enzymes in AOA including ammonia monooxygenase (AMO), the enzyme involved in the first step of ammonia oxidation. This study explored the physiological response of the AOA soil isolate, Nitrososphaera viennensis (EN76T) to Cu-limiting conditions in order to approach its limiting threshold under laboratory conditions. The chelator TETA (1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane N, N', N″, N‴-tetraacetic acid hydrochloride hydrate) with selective affinity for Cu2+ was used to lower bioavailable Cu2+ in culture experiments as predicted by thermodynamic speciation calculations. Results show that N. viennensis is Cu-limited at concentrations ≤10-15 mol L-1 free Cu2+ compared to standard conditions (10-12 mol L-1). This Cu2+ limiting threshold is similar to pure cultures of denitrifying bacteria and other AOA and AOB inhabiting soils, freshwaters and sewage (<10-16 mol L-1), and lower than pure cultures of the marine AOA Nitrosopumilus maritimus (<10-12.7 mol L-1), which also possesses a high amount of Cu-dependent enzymes.
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- Carolina Reyes
- University of Vienna, EDGE- Environmental Geosciences, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics Division, Althanstrasse 14, UZA1, 1090, Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Environmental Science Research Network (ESRN), Faculty for Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- University of Vienna, Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics Division, Althanstrasse 14, UZA1, 1090, Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Environmental Science Research Network (ESRN), Faculty for Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- North Carolina State University, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 840 Main Campus Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
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- University of Vienna, Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics Division, Althanstrasse 14, UZA1, 1090, Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Environmental Science Research Network (ESRN), Faculty for Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Division of Bio-Oceanography, Althanstrasse 14, UZA1, 1090, Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Environmental Science Research Network (ESRN), Faculty for Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- University of Vienna, Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics Division, Althanstrasse 14, UZA1, 1090, Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Environmental Science Research Network (ESRN), Faculty for Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- University of Vienna, EDGE- Environmental Geosciences, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Environmental Science Research Network (ESRN), Faculty for Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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Gledhill M, Basu S, Shaked Y. Metallophores associated with Trichodesmium erythraeum colonies from the Gulf of Aqaba. Metallomics 2019; 11:1547-1557. [PMID: 31475278 DOI: 10.1039/c9mt00121b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Trichodesmium is a globally important marine nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria which forms colonies and utilizes atmospherically derived dust as a source for the limiting micro-nutrient iron. Here we report the identification of metallophores isolated from incubations of natural Trichodesmium colonies collected from the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea. Three of our compounds were identified as the ferrioxamine siderophores B, E, and G. The remaining fifteen metallophores had mass to charge ratios that, to our knowledge, are not common to known siderophores. Putative sum formulas suggest most of these compounds were not structurally related to each other. We also found that the novel metallophores readily formed complexes with aluminium and were less specific for iron than the ferrioxamines. In our incubations of Trichodesmium colonies, the abundance of ten of the novel metallophores positively correlated with Trichodesmium biomass, but not with bacterial biomass, whilst ferrioxamine siderophores were more strongly associated with bacterial biomass. We identified ferrioxamines and our novel metallophores in filtered surface seawater samples from the Gulf of Aqaba. However, our novel metallophores were only observed in the surface seawater sample collected at the time of highest Trichodesmium abundance, while ferrioxamines were observed even when Trichodesmium was not present. We hypothesize that the novel metallophores were specifically associated with Trichodesmium colonies. Together with the bacterially produced ferrioxamines they likely contribute to a distinctive "ligandosphere" surrounding the Trichodesmium colonies, with potential implications for metal homeostasis within the colony environment.
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- Martha Gledhill
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, 24148 Kiel, Germany.
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- The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel and The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Eilat 88103, Israel
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- The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel and The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Eilat 88103, Israel
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Montes-Bayón M, Sharar M, Corte-Rodriguez M. Trends on (elemental and molecular) mass spectrometry based strategies for speciation and metallomics. Trends Analyt Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2017.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Quorum sensing and iron regulate a two-for-one siderophore gene cluster in Vibrio harveyi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:7581-7586. [PMID: 29954861 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805791115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The secretion of small Fe-binding molecules called siderophores is an important microbial strategy for survival in Fe-limited environments. Siderophore production is often regulated by quorum sensing (QS), a microbial counting technique that allows organisms to alter gene expression based on cell density. However, the identity and quantities of siderophores produced under QS regulation are rarely studied in the context of their roles in Fe uptake. We investigated the link between QS, siderophores, and Fe uptake in the model marine organism Vibrio harveyi where QS is thought to repress siderophore production. We find that V. harveyi uses a single QS- and Fe-repressed gene cluster to produce both cell-associated siderophores (amphiphilic enterobactins) as well as several related soluble siderophores, which we identify and quantify using liquid chromatography-coupled (LC)-MS as well as tandem high-resolution MS (LC-HR-MS/MS). Measurements of siderophore production show that soluble siderophores are present at ∼100× higher concentrations than amphi-enterobactin and that over the course of growth V. harveyi decreases amphi-enterobactin concentrations but accumulates soluble siderophores. 55Fe radio-tracer uptake experiments demonstrate that these soluble siderophores play a significant role in Fe uptake and that the QS-dictated concentrations of soluble siderophores in stationary phase are near the limit of cellular uptake capacities. We propose that cell-associated and soluble siderophores are beneficial to V. harveyi in different environmental and growth contexts and that QS allows V. harveyi to exploit "knowledge" of its population size to avoid unnecessary siderophore production.
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Baars O, Morel FMM, Zhang X. The purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris produces novel petrobactin-related siderophores under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:1667-1676. [PMID: 29473283 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2017] [Revised: 01/20/2018] [Accepted: 02/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Many bacteria produce siderophores to bind and take up Fe(III), an essential trace metal with extremely low solubility in oxygenated environments at circumneutral pH. The purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris str. CGA009 is a metabolically versatile model organism with high iron requirements that is able to grow under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Siderophore biosynthesis has been predicted by genomic analysis, however, siderophore structures were not identified. Here, we elucidate the structure of two novel siderophores from R. palustris: rhodopetrobactin A and B. Rhodopetrobactins are structural analogues of the known siderophore petrobactin in which the Fe chelating moieties are conserved, including two 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate and a citrate substructure. In the place of two spermidine linker groups in petrobactin, rhodopetrobactins contain two 4,4'-diaminodibutylamine groups of which one or both are acetylated at the central amine. We analyse siderophore production under different growth modes and show that rhodopetrobactins are produced in response to Fe limitation under aerobic as well as under anaerobic conditions. Evaluation of the chemical characteristics of rhodopetrobactins indicates that they are well suited to support Fe acquisition under variable oxygen and light conditions.
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- Oliver Baars
- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Baumeister TUH, Ueberschaar N, Schmidt-Heck W, Mohr JF, Deicke M, Wichard T, Guthke R, Pohnert G. DeltaMS: a tool to track isotopologues in GC- and LC-MS data. Metabolomics 2018; 14:41. [PMID: 30830340 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-018-1336-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2017] [Accepted: 02/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Stable isotopic labeling experiments are powerful tools to study metabolic pathways, to follow tracers and fluxes in biotic and abiotic transformations and to elucidate molecules involved in metal complexing. OBJECTIVE To introduce a software tool for the identification of isotopologues from mass spectrometry data. METHODS DeltaMS relies on XCMS peak detection and X13CMS isotopologue grouping and then analyses data for specific isotope ratios and the relative error of these ratios. It provides pipelines for recognition of isotope patterns in three experiment types commonly used in isotopic labeling studies: (1) search for isotope signatures with a specific mass shift and intensity ratio in one sample set, (2) analyze two sample sets for a specific mass shift and, optionally, the isotope ratio, whereby one sample set is isotope-labeled, and one is not, (3) analyze isotope-guided perturbation experiments with a setup described in X13CMS. RESULTS To illustrate the versatility of DeltaMS, we analyze data sets from case-studies that commonly pose challenges in evaluation of natural isotopes or isotopic signatures in labeling experiment. In these examples, the untargeted detection of sulfur, bromine and artificial metal isotopic patterns is enabled by the automated search for specific isotopes or isotope signatures. CONCLUSION DeltaMS provides a platform for the identification of (pre-defined) isotopologues in MS data from single samples or comparative metabolomics data sets.
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- Tim U H Baumeister
- Department of Bioorganic Analytics, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,, Lessingstr. 8, 07743, Jena, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Fellow Group on Plankton Community Interaction, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Mass Spectrometric Platform, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstr. 8, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Bioorganic Analytics, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,, Lessingstr. 8, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Bioorganic Analytics, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,, Lessingstr. 8, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Bioorganic Analytics, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,, Lessingstr. 8, 07743, Jena, Germany.
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- Department of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Bioorganic Analytics, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,, Lessingstr. 8, 07743, Jena, Germany.
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Fellow Group on Plankton Community Interaction, Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, 07745, Jena, Germany.
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Baars O, Zhang X, Gibson MI, Stone AT, Morel FMM, Seyedsayamdost MR. Crochelins: Siderophores with an Unprecedented Iron‐Chelating Moiety from the Nitrogen‐Fixing Bacterium
Azotobacter chroococcum. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 57:536-541. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201709720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Revised: 11/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Oliver Baars
- Department of Geosciences Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
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- Department of Geosciences Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
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- Department of Environmental Health and Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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Baars O, Zhang X, Gibson MI, Stone AT, Morel FMM, Seyedsayamdost MR. Crochelins: Siderophores with an Unprecedented Iron‐Chelating Moiety from the Nitrogen‐Fixing Bacterium
Azotobacter chroococcum. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201709720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Oliver Baars
- Department of Geosciences Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
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- Department of Geosciences Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
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- Department of Environmental Health and Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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Walker LR, Tfaily MM, Shaw JB, Hess NJ, Paša-Tolić L, Koppenaal DW. Unambiguous identification and discovery of bacterial siderophores by direct injection 21 Tesla Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Metallomics 2017; 9:82-92. [PMID: 27905613 DOI: 10.1039/c6mt00201c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Under iron-limiting conditions, bacteria produce low molecular mass Fe(iii) binding molecules known as siderophores to sequester the Fe(iii), along with other elements, increasing their bioavailability. Siderophores are thought to influence iron cycling and biogeochemistry in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems and hence the need for rapid, confident characterization of these compounds has increased. In this study, the type of siderophores produced by two marine bacterial species, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 and Vibrio cyclitrophicus 1F53, were characterized by use of a newly developed 21 T Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer (FTICR MS) with direct injection electrospray ionization. This technique allowed for the rapid detection of synechobactins from Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 as well as amphibactins from Vibrio cyclitrophicus 1F53 based on high mass accuracy and resolution allowing for observation of specific Fe isotopes and isotopic fine structure enabling highly confident identification of these siderophores. When combined with molecular network analysis two new amphibactins were discovered and verified by tandem MS. These results show that high-field FTICR MS is a powerful technique that will greatly improve the ability to rapidly identify and discover metal binding species in the environment.
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- Lawrence R Walker
- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
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Novák J, Sokolová L, Lemr K, Pluháček T, Palyzová A, Havlíček V. Batch-processing of imaging or liquid-chromatography mass spectrometry datasets and De Novo sequencing of polyketide siderophores. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2016; 1865:768-775. [PMID: 27956353 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2016.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Revised: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The open-source and cross-platform software CycloBranch was utilized for dereplication of organic compounds from mass spectrometry imaging imzML datasets and its functions were illustrated on microbial siderophores. The pixel-to-pixel batch-processing was analogous to liquid chromatography mass spectrometry data. Each data point represented here by accurate m/z values and the corresponding ion intensities was matched against integrated compound libraries. The fine isotopic structure matching was also embedded into CycloBranch dereplication process. The siderophores' characterization from single-pixel mass spectra was further supported by their de novo sequencing. New ketide building block library was utilized by CycloBranch to characterize the siderophores in images and mixtures and nomenclature of fragment ion series of linear and cyclic polyketide siderophores was proposed. The software is freely available at http://ms.biomed.cas.cz/cyclobranch. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: MALDI Imaging, edited by Dr. Corinna Henkel and Prof. Peter Hoffmann.
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- Jiří Novák
- Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, v.v.i., Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, v.v.i., Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, v.v.i., Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, v.v.i., Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, v.v.i., Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, v.v.i., Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic.
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Siderophore-based microbial adaptations to iron scarcity across the eastern Pacific Ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:14237-14242. [PMID: 27911777 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1608594113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Nearly all iron dissolved in the ocean is complexed by strong organic ligands of unknown composition. The effect of ligand composition on microbial iron acquisition is poorly understood, but amendment experiments using model ligands show they can facilitate or impede iron uptake depending on their identity. Here we show that siderophores, organic compounds synthesized by microbes to facilitate iron uptake, are a dynamic component of the marine ligand pool in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Siderophore concentrations in iron-deficient waters averaged 9 pM, up to fivefold higher than in iron-rich coastal and nutrient-depleted oligotrophic waters, and were dominated by amphibactins, amphiphilic siderophores with cell membrane affinity. Phylogenetic analysis of amphibactin biosynthetic genes suggests that the ability to produce amphibactins has transferred horizontally across multiple Gammaproteobacteria, potentially driven by pressures to compete for iron. In coastal and oligotrophic regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean, amphibactins were replaced with lower concentrations (1-2 pM) of hydrophilic ferrioxamine siderophores. Our results suggest that organic ligand composition changes across the surface ocean in response to environmental pressures. Hydrophilic siderophores are predominantly found across regions of the ocean where iron is not expected to be the limiting nutrient for the microbial community at large. However, in regions with intense competition for iron, some microbes optimize iron acquisition by producing siderophores that minimize diffusive losses to the environment. These siderophores affect iron bioavailability and thus may be an important component of the marine iron cycle.
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Přichystal J, Schug KA, Lemr K, Novák J, Havlíček V. Structural Analysis of Natural Products. Anal Chem 2016; 88:10338-10346. [PMID: 27661090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b02386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Current mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction are presented as structure elucidation tools for analytical chemistry of natural products. Discovering new molecular entities combined with dereplication of known organic compounds represent prerequisites for biological assays and for respective applications as pharmaceuticals or molecular markers. Liquid chromatography is briefly addressed with respect to its use in mass spectrometry- and nuclear magnetic resonance-based metabolomics studies.
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- Jakub Přichystal
- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Videnska 1083, Prague 4, Czech Republic.,Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Palacky University , 17. listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- The University of Texas at Arlington , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arlington, Texas 76019-0065, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Videnska 1083, Prague 4, Czech Republic.,Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Palacky University , 17. listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Videnska 1083, Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Videnska 1083, Prague 4, Czech Republic.,Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Palacky University , 17. listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Tsednee M, Huang YC, Chen YR, Yeh KC. Identification of metal species by ESI-MS/MS through release of free metals from the corresponding metal-ligand complexes. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26785. [PMID: 27240899 PMCID: PMC4886218 DOI: 10.1038/srep26785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) is used to analyze metal species in a variety of samples. Here, we describe an application for identifying metal species by tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) with the release of free metals from the corresponding metal-ligand complexes. The MS/MS data were used to elucidate the possible fragmentation pathways of different metal-deoxymugineic acid (-DMA) and metal-nicotianamine (-NA) complexes and select the product ions with highest abundance that may be useful for quantitative multiple reaction monitoring. This method can be used for identifying different metal-ligand complexes, especially for metal species whose mass spectra peaks are clustered close together. Different metal-DMA/NA complexes were simultaneously identified under different physiological pH conditions with this method. We further demonstrated the application of the technique for different plant samples and with different MS instruments.
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- Munkhtsetseg Tsednee
- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529 Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529 Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529 Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529 Taiwan
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Baars O, Zhang X, Morel FMM, Seyedsayamdost MR. The Siderophore Metabolome of Azotobacter vinelandii. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:27-39. [PMID: 26452553 PMCID: PMC4702634 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03160-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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In this study, we performed a detailed characterization of the siderophore metabolome, or "chelome," of the agriculturally important and widely studied model organism Azotobacter vinelandii. Using a new high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) approach, we found over 35 metal-binding secondary metabolites, indicative of a vast chelome in A. vinelandii. These include vibrioferrin, a siderophore previously observed only in marine bacteria. Quantitative analyses of siderophore production during diazotrophic growth with different sources and availabilities of Fe showed that, under all tested conditions, vibrioferrin was present at the highest concentration of all siderophores and suggested new roles for vibrioferrin in the soil environment. Bioinformatic searches confirmed the capacity for vibrioferrin production in Azotobacter spp. and other bacteria spanning multiple phyla, habitats, and lifestyles. Moreover, our studies revealed a large number of previously unreported derivatives of all known A. vinelandii siderophores and rationalized their origins based on genomic analyses, with implications for siderophore diversity and evolution. Together, these insights provide clues as to why A. vinelandii harbors multiple siderophore biosynthesis gene clusters. Coupled with the growing evidence for alternative functions of siderophores, the vast chelome in A. vinelandii may be explained by multiple, disparate evolutionary pressures that act on siderophore production.
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- Oliver Baars
- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Chemical ecology elucidates the nature and role of natural products as mediators of organismal interactions. The emerging techniques that can be summarized under the concept of metabolomics provide new opportunities to study such environmentally relevant signaling molecules. Especially comparative tools in metabolomics enable the identification of compounds that are regulated during interaction situations and that might play a role as e.g. pheromones, allelochemicals or in induced and activated defenses. This approach helps overcoming limitations of traditional bioassay-guided structure elucidation approaches. But the power of metabolomics is not limited to the comparison of metabolic profiles of interacting partners. Especially the link to other -omics techniques helps to unravel not only the compounds in question but the entire biosynthetic and genetic re-wiring, required for an ecological response. This review comprehensively highlights successful applications of metabolomics in chemical ecology and discusses existing limitations of these novel techniques. It focuses on recent developments in comparative metabolomics and discusses the use of metabolomics in the systems biology of organismal interactions. It also outlines the potential of large metabolomics initiatives for model organisms in the field of chemical ecology.
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- Constanze Kuhlisch
- Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Lessingstr. 8, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
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Boiteau RM, Repeta DJ. An extended siderophore suite from Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 revealed by LC-ICPMS-ESIMS. Metallomics 2015; 7:877-84. [DOI: 10.1039/c5mt00005j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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New members of the synechobactin siderophore suite with variable hydroxamate chain length were discovered using an LCMS based pipeline for the sensitive characterization of iron complexes.
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- Rene M. Boiteau
- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Woods Hole, USA
- Department of Earth
- Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Woods Hole, USA
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