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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 193, Issue 7, Pages 1767-1770Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01312-10
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 AI063432, R01 AI083632]
- [T32 AI007493]
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Most iron in mammals is found within the heme prosthetic group. Consequently, many bacterial pathogens possess heme acquisition systems to utilize iron from the host. Here, we demonstrate that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can utilize heme as an iron source, suggesting that M. tuberculosis possesses a yet-unknown heme acquisition system.
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