Iron is essential to virtually all organisms, but poses problems of toxicity and poor solubility.
Bacteria have evolved various mechanisms to counter the problems imposed by their iron …

Iron is required by most living systems. A great variety of means of acquisition, avenues of
uptake, and methods of storage are used by pathogenic fungi to ensure a supply of the …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important pathogen of mammals that relies on 2-
hydroxyphenyloxazoline-containing siderophore molecules called mycobactins for the …

This Handbook on Metalloproteins focuses on the available structural information of proteins
and their metal ion coordination spheres. It centers on the metal ions indispensable for life …

The Escherichia coli mntH (formerly yfeP) gene encodes a putative membrane protein
(MntH) highly similar to members of the eukaryotic Nramp family of divalent metal ion …

Thalassiosira oceanica (Hustedt) Hasle et Heimdal (clone 1003) attained rapid rates of
growth in low Fe seawater containing the siderophore ferrioxamine B (FeDFB) as the sole …

The roles of the genes feoB (ABC ferrous iron transporter), mntH (proton-dependent
manganese transporter), and sitABCD (putative ABC iron and/or manganese transporter) in …

It is common knowledge that pathogenic viruses can change hosts, with avian influenza, the
HIV, and the causal agent of variant Creutzfeldt–Jacob encephalitis as well-known …

Three Bacillus anthracis Sterne strains (USAMRIID, 7702, and 34F2) and Bacillus cereus
ATCC 14579 excrete two catecholate siderophores, petrobactin (which contains 3, 4 …

Recent studies demonstrate that dissolved iron in seawater is bound to strong organic
complexes that have stability constants comparable to those of microbial iron chelates. We …