Iron transport and signaling in Escherichia coli
Open Access
- 14 August 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 529 (1) , 78-85
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03185-x
Abstract
Bacteria solve the iron supply problem caused by the insolubility of Fe3+ by synthesizing iron‐complexing compounds, called siderophores, and by using iron sources of their hosts, such as heme and ir...Keywords
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