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Iron acquisition: straight up and on the rocks?

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 10, pages 240–241 (2003)Cite this article

New structural analysis finds a metal-oxo clusters bound to the iron trafficking protein Fbp. Does this point to a possible strategy for bacterial iron acquisition?

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Figure 1: Stylized view of iron acquisition pathways by Gram-negative bacteria.

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