Lactoferrin receptors in Gram-negative bacteria: Insights into the iron acquisition process

BioMetals

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-243

  Ekins, Andrew ^a   Khan, Ali G ^a   Shouldice, Stephen R ^a   Schryvers, Anthony B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; IRON; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; LACTOFERRIN; LIPOPROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL TRANSPORT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; IRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TRANSFERRIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 3343013292     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BIOM.0000027698.43322.60     Document Type: Article

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