Overcoming the heme paradox: Heme toxicity and tolerance in bacterial pathogens

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4977-4989

  Anzaldi, Laura L ^a   Skaar, Eric P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BILIVERDIN; CATALASE; COENZYME A; CYTOCHROME; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON; PEROXIDASE; PROTEIN TONB; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL HEME TOXICITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BIODEGRADATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DETOXIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON METABOLISM; IRON TRANSPORT; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHORT SURVEY; TOXICITY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 78649921851     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00613-10     Document Type: Short Survey

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