Mycobacterium tuberculosis can utilize heme as an iron source

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1767-1770

  Jones, Christopher M ^a   Niederweis, Michael ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEME; IRON; MYCOBACTIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MBTA GENE; MBTB GENE; MBTC GENE; MBTD GENE; MBTE GENE; MBTF GENE; MBTG GENE; MBTH GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMIN; IRON; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS; SIDEROPHORES; TRANSFERRIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79952776050     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01312-10     Document Type: Article

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