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Solution structure of Escherichia coli FeoA and its potential role in bacterial ferrous iron transport.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 2013
Lau Cheryl K Y, Ishida Hiroaki, Liu Zhihong, Vogel Hans J
Abstract excerpt
Iron is an indispensable nutrient for most organisms. Ferric iron (Fe(3+)) predominates under aerobic conditions, while during oxygen limitation ferrous (Fe(2+)) iron is usually present. The Feo system is a bacterial ferrous iron transport system first discovered in Escherichia coli K-12. It consists of three genes, feoA, feoB, and feoC (yhgG). FeoB is thought to be the main transmembrane transporter while FeoC...
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