Expression of the CopB outer membrane protein by Moraxella catarrhalis is regulated by iron and affects iron acquisition from transferrin and lactoferrin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2024-2030

  Aebi, Christoph ^a,b   Stone, Barbara ^c   Beucher, Margaret ^c   Cope, Leslie D ^a   Maciver, Isobel ^a   Thomas, Sharon E ^a   Mccracken Jr , George H ^b   Sparling, P Frederick ^c   Hansen, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; FERRIC CITRATE; HEME; IRON; LACTOFERRIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION;

EID: 0029885306     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.2024-2030.1996     Document Type: Article

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