Talk:Siderophore

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Certain bacteria use citrate, but I've forgotten which. A mission for a random wikipedian! Jack the Stripper (talk) 14:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

If you mean bacteria that utilize ferric citrate as iron source: there are numerous, like e.g. E. coli, other enterobacteriaceae, as well as pseudomonads, for instance(via the Fec-systm). On the other hand I can't quite recall whether there are any bacteria that actually secrete citrate as a kind of siderophore CharonZ (talk) 13:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

It said in Brock Biology of Microorganism that citrate was sometimes used as an iron chelator, and either's it's secreted outside the cell or into the space between cell wall and the phospholipid bilayer... I'll try to remember once I have access to the book again. Jack the Stripper (talk) 00:32, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

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On another note, the second part of the text is actually more about Pseudomonas than about siderophores.CharonZ (talk)