This is not your mother's repressor: The complex role of fur in pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2590-2601

  Carpenter, Beth M ^a   Whitmire, Jeannette M ^a   Merrell, D Scott ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; LACTOFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DNA DAMAGE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; IRON ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 67650094768     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00116-09     Document Type: Short Survey

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