PPE Surface Proteins Are Required for Heme Utilization by <italic toggle="yes">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</italic>

PPE Surface Proteins Are Required for Heme Utilization by <italic toggle="yes">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</italic>

ABSTRACT Iron is essential for replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but iron is efficiently sequestered in the human host during infection. Heme constitutes the largest iron reservoir in the human body and is utilized by many bacterial pathogens as an iron source. While heme acquisition is wel...

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Autores principales: Avishek Mitra, Alexander Speer, Kan Lin, Sabine Ehrt, Michael Niederweis
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Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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