Article
Relative importance of three iron-regulated outer membrane proteins for in vivo growth of Vibrio cholerae.
Infection and immunity - 1 May 1996
Tashima K T, Carroll P A, Rogers M B, Calderwood S B
Abstract excerpt
Iron is an essential nutrient to support the growth of most bacterial species. However, iron is not easily available to microorganisms infecting mammalian hosts, because it is largely sequestered by iron-binding proteins, such as transferrin or lactoferrin, or complexed to heme. In response to en...
Topics
- Alkaline Phosphatase
- Animals
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Biological Transport, Active
- Carrier Proteins
- Gene Expression
- Genes, Bacterial
- Heme
- Iron
- Male
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Mice
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation
- Rabbits
- Vibrio cholerae