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Vibrioferrin production by the food spoilage bacterium Pseudomonas fragi.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Mar 2018
Stanborough Tamsyn, Fegan Narelle, Powell Shane M, Tamplin Mark, Chandry P Scott
Abstract excerpt
Pseudomonas fragi is a meat and milk spoilage bacterium with high iron requirements; however, mechanisms of iron acquisition remain largely unknown. The aim of this work was to investigate siderophore production as an iron acquisition system for P. fragi. A vibrioferrin siderophore gene cluster was identified in 13 P. fragi, and experiments were conducted with a representative strain of this group (F1801)....
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