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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Main Authors: Avishek Mitra, Alexander Speer, Kan Lin, Sabine Ehrt, Michael Niederweis
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/6292d8eaa5544b939a06b55c8f002dcc
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