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Enterobactin: the characteristic catecholate siderophore of Enterobacteriaceae is produced by Streptomyces
H P Fiedler1, P Krastel, J Müller
1Mikrobiologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Germany. hans-peter.fiedler@uni-tuebingen.de
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|March 27, 2001
Abstract:
Enterobactin is described in the literature as the typical iron-chelating compound (siderophore) produced by bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. In the course of a HPLC with diode array detection screening programme for detection of novel secondary metabolites, enterobactin, its biosynthetic precursor 2,3-dihydroxy-N-benzoylserine and its linear dimer and trimer condensation products were found to be produced by two Streptomyces strains besides the trihydroxamate-type siderophores desferri-ferrioxamine B and E.