Iron is a micronutrient for nearly all life on Earth. It can be used as an electron donor and
electron acceptor by iron-oxidizing and iron-reducing microorganisms and is used in a …

Microbial metagenomes are DNA samples of the most abundant, and therefore most
successful organisms at the sampling time and location for a given cell size range. The study …

Background Iron uptake from the host is essential for bacteria that infect animals. To find
potential targets for drugs active against pathogenic bacteria, we have searched all …

This minireview presents recent advances in our understanding of iron oxidation and
homeostasis in acidophilic Bacteria and Archaea. These processes influence the flux of …

We used comparative genomics to investigate the distribution of conserved DNA-binding
motifs in the regulatory regions of genes involved in iron and manganese homeostasis in …

Metagenomics has transformed microbiology, but its potential has not been fully expressed
yet. From computational methods for digging deeper into metagenomes to study designs for …

In the pelagic environment, iron is a scarce but essential micronutrient. The iron acquisition
capabilities of selected marine bacteria have been investigated, but the recent proliferation …

Neutrophilic microaerophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB) are thought to play a significant
role in cycling of carbon, iron and associated elements in both freshwater and marine iron …

The oral cavity of each person is home to hundreds of bacterial species. While taxa for oral
diseases have been studied using culture-based characterization as well as amplicon …

Host–pathogen interactions provide valuable systems for the study of evolutionary genetics
and natural selection. The sequestration of essential iron has emerged as a crucial innate …