Bacterial iron sources: From siderophores to hemophores

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 611-647

  Wandersman, Cécile ^a   Delepelaire, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Iron homeostasis; Receptors; Regulation; Structure function; TonB

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIMER; FERROUS CITRATE FE 59; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEME; HEME CARRIER PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPEXIN; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON; IRON CARRIER PROTEIN; MONOMER; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYOVERDINE; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; APOSIDEROPHORE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BETA BARREL DOMAIN; BIOTOPE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOPHORE; IRON METABOLISM; IRON STORAGE; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PLUG DOMAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULON; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEME; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SIDEROPHORES;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 9244234392     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123811     Document Type: Review

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