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Role of the Dickeya dadantii Dps protein.
Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine - 1 Apr 2012
Boughammoura Aïda, Expert Dominique, Franza Thierry
Abstract excerpt
During infection, the phytopathogenic enterobacterium Dickeya dadantii has to cope with iron-limiting conditions and the production of reactive oxygen species by plant cells. A tight control of the bacterial intracellular iron content is necessary for full virulence of D. dadantii: previous studies have shown that the ferritin FtnA and the bacterioferrtin Bfr, devoted to iron storage, contribute differentially to...
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