The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011
that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only …

Bacteria secrete small molecules known as siderophores to acquire iron from their
surroundings. For over 60 years, investigations into the bioinorganic chemistry of these …

Iron is an essential nutrient for bacterial growth, replication, and metabolism. Humans store
iron bound to various proteins such as hemoglobin, haptoglobin, transferrin, ferritin, and …

Iron is an indispensable metabolic cofactor in both pro-and eukaryotes, which engenders a
natural competition for the metal between bacterial pathogens and their human or animal …

The vast majority of bacteria require iron for growth. 1, 2 Iron is an essential element
required for key biological processes, including amino acid synthesis, oxygen transport …

Iron is a versatile redox-active catalyst and a required cofactor within a diverse array of
biological processes. To almost all organisms, iron is both essential and potentially toxic …

Background The production of peroxide and superoxide is an inevitable consequence of
aerobic metabolism, and while these particular'reactive oxygen species'(ROSs) can exhibit a …

Iron is essential for nearly all living organisms. Innate immunity effectively restricts iron
availability to microbial invaders. Some microbes have evolved effective countermeasures …

Green tea may favorably modulate blood glucose homeostasis, and regular consumption of
green tea can prevent the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. In this study, α …

The lipocalins are secreted proteins that bind small organic molecules. Scn-Ngal (also
known as neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin, siderocalin, lipocalin 2) sequesters …