Iron Acquisition in Bacillus cereus: The Roles of IlsA and Bacillibactin in Exogenous Ferritin Iron Mobilization

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Segond, Diego ^a   Abi Khalil, Elise ^a,b   Buisson, Christophe ^a   Daou, Nadine ^a,c   Kallassy, Mireille ^b   Lereclus, Didier ^a   Arosio, Paolo ^d   Bou Abdallah, Fadi ^e   Nielsen Le Roux, Christina ^a  

^a UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^b SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLIBACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATECHOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FERRITIN; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON REGULATED LEUCINE RICH SURFACE PROTEIN TYPE A; KANAMYCIN; SIDEROPHORE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS INFECTION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IRON KINETICS; IRON TRANSPORT; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FERRITINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IRON; MOTHS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84897679130     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003935     Document Type: Article

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