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Iron Acquisition in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.
Journal of bacteriology - 28 Dec 2015
Wang Joyce, Moolji Jalal, Dufort Alex, Staffa Alfredo, Domenech Pilar, Reed Michael B, Behr Marcel A
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is a host-adapted pathogen that evolved from the environmental bacterium M. avium subsp. hominissuis through gene loss and gene acquisition. Growth of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the laboratory is enhanced by supplementation of the media with the iron-binding siderophore mycobactin J. Here we examined the production of mycobactins by related...
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