Siderophores are small molecular weight iron scavengers that are mainly produced by
bacteria, fungi, and plants. Recently, they have attracted increasing attention because of …

Siderophores are chelators with extremely strong affinity for ferric iron and are best known
for their capacity to feed microorganisms with this metal. Despite their preference for iron …

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), the predominant cause of uncomplicated urinary
tract infection (UTI), utilizes an array of outer membrane iron receptors to facilitate …

We describe a comprehensive detection system for 18 kinds of classical and newly
described staphylococcal superantigenic toxin genes using four sets of multiplex PCR …

Siderophore production and utilization is one of the major strategies deployed by bacteria to
get access to iron, a key nutrient for bacterial growth. The biological function of siderophores …

Bacterial pathogens must overcome host sequestration of zinc (Zn 2+), an essential
micronutrient, during the infectious disease process. While the mechanisms to acquire …

Yersiniabactin (Ybt) is a siderophore-dependent iron uptake system encoded on a
pathogenicity island that is widespread among pathogenic bacteria including the Yersiniae …

Burkholderia is a genus within the β-Proteobacteriaceae that contains at least 90 validly
named species which can be found in a diverse range of environments. A number of …

To get access to iron, microorganisms produce and release into their environment small
organic metal chelators called siderophores. In parallel, they produce siderophore–iron …

Many bacteria carry two or more chromosome-like replicons. This occurs in pathogens such
as Vibrio cholerea and Brucella abortis as well as in many N2-fixing plant symbionts …