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Cloning and functional characterization of Neisseria gonorrhoeae tonB, exbB and exbD genes.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 1997
Biswas G D, Anderson J E, Sparling P F
Abstract excerpt
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is able to utilize iron (Fe) from a variety of sources including transferrin (TF) and lactoferrin (LF). To gain insight into the molecular mechanisms used by gonococci to scavenge Fe from TF and LF, we cloned a 3.5 kb segment of wild-type DNA that repaired the defect in tlu mutants, which are unable to take up Fe from either TF or LF despite exhibiting apparently normal ligand binding to the...
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