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Evolution and Sequence Diversity of FhuA in Salmonella and Escherichia.
Infection and immunity - 1 Nov 2018
Wang Yejun, Chen Xiongbin, Hu Yueming, Zhu Guoqiang, White Aaron P, Köster Wolfgang
Abstract excerpt
The fhuACDB operon, present in a number of Enterobacteriaceae, encodes components essential for the uptake of ferric hydroxamate type siderophores. FhuA acts not only as a transporter for physiologically important chelated ferric iron but also as a receptor for various bacteriophages, toxins, and antibiotics, which are pathogenic to bacterial cells. In this research, fhuA gene distribution and sequence diversity...
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