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Requires Mg2+. Aerobactin is one of a group of high-affinity iron chelators known as siderophores and is produced under conditions of iron deprivation . It is a dihydroxamate comprising two molecules of N6-acetyl-N6-hydroxylysine and one molecule of citric acid. This is the last of the three enzymes involved in its synthesis, the others being EC 1.14.13.59, L-lysine 6-monooxygenase (NADPH) and EC 2.3.1.102, N6-hydroxylysine O-acetyltransferase .