Siderophore catecholate

As with hydroxamate siderophores, simple tris(catecholato) metallate(lll) complexes have served as models for enterobactin. Unlike hydroxamate, catecholate is a symmetric, bidentate ligand. Consequently, there are no geometrical isomers of simple tris(catecholato) metal complexes, and only A and A optical isomers are possible. However all siderophore catecholates are substituted asymmetrically on the catechol ring, such that geometric isomers may in principle exist. However, in the case of enterobactin molecular models show only the more symmetric cis chelate is possible, as the A or A form. 

Fig. 1. Common siderophore iron-binding groups catechol (Eq. (4)), hydroxamic acid (Eq. (5)), ot-hydroxycarboxylic acid (Eq. (6)), and hydroxypyridinone (Eq. (7)). Additional siderophore binding groups ...

Fig. 6. Saccharide-platform siderophore mimics with catechol and hydroxamic acid donor groups, H6L 34(9), H6Lg34(10), H3L 34(11), and H3L236(12).

The effect of the amino acid spacer on iron(III) affinity was investigated using a series of enterobactin-mimic TRENCAM-based siderophores (82). While TRENCAM (17) has structural similarities to enterobactin, in that it is a tripodal tris-catechol iron-binding molecule, the addition of amino acid spacers to the TRENCAM frame (Fig. 10) increases the stability of the iron(III) complexes of the analogs in the order ofbAla (19)complex stability is attributed to the intramolecular interactions of the additional amino acid side chains that stabilize the iron-siderophore complex slightly. 

Another study of a synthetic siderophore analog of mixed cathechol and hydroxamate donor groups exhibited similar spectral shifts with pH as observed for tris-catecholate side-rophores, consistent with a salicylate-binding mode shift (102). While this synthetic siderophore mimic supports the growth of many species of bacteria, it also exhibits a low iron-binding affinity relative to other hexadentate siderophores, with a pFe value of 18.3 (see L(cat2hydroxamate) Table HE). 

TRENSerCAM (20) TRENGIuCAM (21) TRENLysCAM (22) Fig. 10. TREN family of catechol siderophore mimics. 

Fig. 11. Catecholate-to-salicylate-binding mode shift in catechola-mide donor group siderophores, such as enterobactin (1) and enter-obactin analogs.

Fig. 12. Non-catecholate donor group TREN family of synthetic siderophore mimics.

The terephthalamide moiety (Fig. 13) is similar in structure to catechol, but has a higher affinity for iron(III) at physiological conditions and consequently has been used in the synthesis of siderophore mimics. The higher pFe values are due to the... 

The exchange of iron from transferrin to desferrioxamine B (4), some catecholate siderophores, and some hydroxypyridinone-based siderophore mimics has been investigated (139,189,190). Turcot et al. found that at concentrations similar to those that would be observed in biological settings or clinical treatments,... 

Fe(III) displacement of Al(III), Ga(III), or In(III) from their respective complexes with these tripodal ligands, have been determined. The M(III)-by-Fe(III) displacement processes are controlled by the ease of dissociation of Al(III), Ga(III), or In(III) Fe(III) may in turn be displaced from these complexes by edta (removal from the two non-equivalent sites gives rise to an appropriate kinetic pattern) (343). Kinetics and mechanism of a catalytic chloride ion effect on the dissociation of model siderophore-hydroxamate iron(III) complexes chloride and, to lesser extents, bromide and nitrate, catalyze ligand dissociation through transient coordination of the added anion to the iron (344). A catechol derivative of desferrioxamine has been found to remove iron from transferrin about 100 times faster than desferrioxamine itself it forms a significantly more stable product with Fe3+ (345). 

The FhuA receptor of E. coli transports the hydroxamate-type siderophore ferrichrome (see Figure 9), the structural similar antibiotic albomycin and the antibiotic rifamycin CGP 4832. Likewise, FepA is the receptor for the catechol-type siderophore enterobactin. As monomeric proteins, both receptors consist of a hollow, elliptical-shaped, channel-like 22-stranded, antiparallel (3-barrel, which is formed by the large C-terminal domain. A number of strands extend far beyond the lipid bilayer into the extracellular space. The strands are connected sequentially using short turns on the periplasmic side, and long loops on the extracellular side of the barrel. 

As mentioned above, transport of siderophores across the cytoplasmic membrane is less specific than the translocation through the outer membrane. In E. coli three different outer membrane proteins (among them FepA the receptor for enterobactin produced by most E. coli strains) recognise siderophores of the catechol type (enterobactin and structurally related compounds), while only one ABC system is needed for the passage into the cytosol. Likewise, OM receptors FhuA, FhuE, and Iut are needed to transport a number of different ferric hydroxamates, whereas the FhuBCD proteins accept a variety of hydroxamate type ligands such as albomycin, ferrichrome, coprogen, aerobactin, shizokinen, rhodotorulic acid, and ferrioxamine B [165,171], For the vast majority of systems, the substrate specificity has not been elucidated, but it can be assumed that many siderophore ABC permeases might be able to transport several different but structurally related substrates. 

Table XVI shows a selection of stability constants and redox potentials for iron(II) and iron(III) complexes. This Table covers a wide range of the latter, showing how the relative stabilities of the iron(II) and iron(III) complexes are refiected in. B (Fe /Fe ) values. A more detailed illustration is provided by the complexes of a series of linear hexadentate hydroxypyridinonate and catecholate ligands, where again high stabilities for the respective iron(III) complexes are refiected in markedly negative redox potentials (213). The combination of the high stabilities of iron(III) complexes of hydrox5rpyridinones, as of hydroxamates, catecholates, and siderophores, and the low stabilities of their iron(II) analogues is also apparent in Fig. 8. Here redox potentials for hydroxypyranonate and hydroxypyridinonate complexes of iron are placed in the overall context of redox potentials for iron(III)/iron(II) couples. The -(Fe /Fe ) range for e.g., water, cyanide, edta, 2,2 -bipyridyl, and (substituted) 1,10-phenanthrolines is...

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