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Authors: Jorge H. Crosa (Editor), Alexandra R. Mey (Editor), Shelley M. Payne
ISBN-13: 9781555812928, ISBN-10: 1555812929
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: ASM Press
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jorge H. Crosa

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I	Siderophores and hemophores : properties and biosynthesis of bacterial iron and heme carriers	1
1	Biochemical and physical properties of siderophores	3
2	Siderophore biosynthesis in bacteria	18
3	Hemophore-dependent heme acquisition systems	38
II	Iron transport proteins : structural studies	49
4	Structure of outer membrane receptor proteins	51
5	Bacterial heme and hemoprotein receptors	66
6	Bacterial heme oxygenases	86
7	The tonB, exbB, and exbD proteins	96
8	Periplasmic binding proteins involved in bacterial iron uptake	113
III	Iron transport, energetics, and regulation in Escherichia coli K-12 : a prototype for iron transport systems in gram-negative bacteria	131
9	Iron upake via the enterobactin system	133
10	Transport biochemistry of FepA	147
11	Ferrichrome- and citrate-mediated iron transport	158
12	Ferrous iron transport	178
13	Mode of binding of the fur protein to target DNA : negative regulation of iron-controlled gene expression	185
IV	Iron transport systems in pathogenic bacteria	197
14	Pathogenic Escherichia coli, Shigella, and Salmonella	199
15	Yersinia	219
16	Vibrio	241
17	Neisseria	256
18	Haemophilus	273
19	Pseudomonas	293
20	Bordetella	311
21	Porphyromonas gingivalis	329
22	Corynebacterium diphtheriae	344
23	Pathogenic mycobacteria	360
24	Legionella	372
25	Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Bacillus	387
26	Erwinia, a plant pathogen	402
27	Therapeutic uses of iron(III) chelators and their antimicrobial conjugates	413
V	Iron transport and ecology	435
28	Ecology of siderophores	437
29	Environmental fluorescent Pseudomonas and pyoverdine diversity : how siderophores could help microbiologists in bacterial identification and taxonomy	451
30	Mechanisms and regulation of iron uptake in the rhizobia	469

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