Siderophore-mediated iron metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcus aureus requires iron as a nutrient and uses uptake systems to extract iron from the human host. S. aureus produces the iron-chelating siderophore staphyloferrin B (SB) to scavenge for available iron under conditions of low iron stress. Upon iron-siderophore re-entry into the cell, iro...
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University of British Columbia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57023 |