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  • Title: Iron uptake from lactoferrin and transferrin by Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
    Author: McKenna WR, Mickelsen PA, Sparling PF, Dyer DW.
    Journal: Infect Immun; 1988 Apr; 56(4):785-91. PubMed ID: 3126143.
    Abstract:
    The major iron (Fe) sources available to Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the human host are probably transferrin (TF) and lactoferrin (LF). Although a number of studies have examined Fe uptake by Neisseria meningitidis, no comparable studies have been done on Fe uptake by the gonococcus from TF and LF. We found that, like meningococci, gonococci removed Fe from TF and LF in an energy-dependent manner; uptake was repressed by Fe and did not proceed by a siderophore-mediated uptake system. Unlike published studies examining meningococcal Fe uptake from TF, our study showed that gonococcal Fe uptake from both TF and LF was highly efficient; uptake saturated at 1 microM protein, and growth with 5% saturated TF and LF occurred at maximal rates when the protein was present in appreciable concentrations. We conclude that the availability of protein-bound Fe probably does not limit growth of N. gonorrhoeae in the human body.
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