… under low iron stress. The role of these compounds is to scavenge iron from the environment
and to make the mineral, which is almost always essential, available to the microbial cell. …

… , and structure of various microbial siderophores. … microbial siderophores as iron sources
must start with a brief review of our understanding of how plants themselves respond to iron …

… found that the structural features of enterobactin that most contribute to iron binding are the
… the ortho-phenolate as observed in the few crystal structures of metal–enterobactin (M = V(IV)…

… Additional iron transport proteins were not expressed in sufficient amounts at low iron conditions
but required amplification of their structural genes to be identified. The five iron transport …

… iron, an essential nutrient. Siderophores are small iron chelators that facilitate cellular iron
transport. … Even a recent major microbiological review (35) incorrectly assigned the structure of …

… -mediated transport systems. In contrast, iron transport in the fresh water bacterium Aeromonas
hydrophila is found to occur by means of an indiscriminant siderophore transport system …

… the solubilization and transport of iron.2-4 Since theiron supply is often a limiting factor in
the growth of these microbes, siderophores and their corresponding transport systems play an …

… are involved in microbial iron uptake and transport and considerable … structures complement
our knowledge of iron transport systems … iron uptake proteins. More importantly, the current …

… and non-pathogenic microbes is the Feo System. … structural data for each Feo protein will
be explored in an attempt to contribute to our understanding of the details of the iron transport …

… -mediated iron uptake, particularly structural characteristics of marine … microbial iron transport
compared to that for terrestrial and pathogenic microbes, yet comparison of the structures …