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The chemolithoautotroph Nitrosomonas europaea has two genes predicted to encode outer-membrane (OM) ferrioxamine transporters. Expression of the ferrioxamine uptake system required induction, as shown by the shorter lag phase in ferrioxamine-containing cultures when ferrioxamine-exposed cells were used as an inoculum. The two OM ferrioxamine siderophore transporters encoded by foxA1 (NE1097) and foxA2 (NE1088) were produced only in cells grown in Fe-limited ferrioxamine-containing medium. The inactivation of foxA1 , singly or in combination with foxA2 , prevented growth in Fe-limited medium containing excess desferrioxamine (DFX). The foxA2 -disrupted single mutant grew poorly in the regular Fe-limited (0.2 μM) medium with 10 μM DFX, but grew well when the Fe level was raised to 1.0 μM with 10 μM DFX. For efficient acquisition of Fe-loaded ferrioxamine, N. europaea needs both ferrioxamine transporters FoxA1 and FoxA2. FoxA1 probably regulates its own production, and it controls the production of FoxA2 as well.
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