Characterization of the Yersinia pestis Yfu ABC inorganic iron transport system

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2829-2837

  Gong, S ^a   Bearden, S W ^a   Geoffroy, V A ^a   Fetherston, J D ^a   Perry, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IRON; MANGANESE; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YERSINIABACTIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAEMOPHILUS; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; SERRATIA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; IRON; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0035055258     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.67.5.2829-2837.2001     Document Type: Article

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