Iron uptake and iron-repressible polypeptides in Yersinia pestis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3023-3031

  Lucier, Thomas S ^a,c   Fetherston, Jacqueline D ^b   Brubaker, Robert R ^a   Perry, Robert D ^b  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMIN; IRON; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON CHELATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0030017435     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.8.3023-3031.1996     Document Type: Article

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