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Metabolism of Sulphur-Containing Organic Compounds

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Pseudomonas

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Pseudomonas species inhabit a wide variety of habitats, ranging from the human body to soils, the rhizosphere, and the phyllosphere. Like all microorganisms, they require sulfur for growth, and this is normally provided by assimilation of inorganic sulfate. However, many pseudomonads inhabit environments where sulfate may not be freely available. In aerobic soils, for instance, inorganic sulfate makes up less than 5% of the total sulfur, and most of the residual sulfur is present as peptides/amino acids, sulfate esters, and sulfonates. Much of this sulfonate content is derived from plant sulfolipid in the thylakoid membranes, which may also provide sulfur for leaf-dwelling pseudomonads. In the human body, other sulfur sources are present, such as the neurotransmitter taurine (2-aminoethane-sulfonate), sulfated mucins in gut and lung environments, and glycosaminoglycan in connective tissue. The importance of sulfur metabolism for pseudomonads is underlined by the fact that in Pseudomonas syringae methionine prototrophy is required for virulence8, while in Pseudomonas putida loss of the ability to desulfurize sulfate esters leads to reduced survival in the soil54.

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