Iron limitation by transferrin promotes simultaneous cheating of pyoverdine and exoprotease in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
O. Tostado-Islas, A. Mendoza-Ortiz, G. Ramirez-Garcia, I. D. Cabrera-Takane, D. Loarca, C. Perez-Gonzalez, R. Jasso-Chavez, J. G. Jimenez-Cortes, Y. Hoshiko, T. Maeda, A. Cazares, R. Garcia-Contreras
The paper shows that using transferrin as an iron chelator selects for mutants lacking both pyoverdine and exoprotease production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
bioRxiv · Jun 21, 2020Microbiology