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The bacterial cell membrane acts as a dynamic heme reservoir during group B <i>Streptococcus</i> bloodstream infection

2026-05-16

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During bloodstream infection, most bacterial pathogens maintain homeostatic levels of heme, which serves as an essential biochemical cofactor and iron source, but becomes toxic at high intracellular concentrations. Well-characterized, surface exposed heme binding and acquisition systems exist in several blood-borne bacterial species. However, some gram-positive bacteria that invade the bloodstream do not encode su...

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Literature Corpus work: d7608d5c-7ed1-5cb9-ac06-24f326cfd840
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.15.725516

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