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Ironing Out the Unconventional Mechanisms of Iron Acquisition and Gene Regulation in Chlamydia

The obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, along with its close species relatives, is known to be strictly dependent upon the availability of iron. Deprivation of iron in vitro induces an aberrant morphological phenotype termed “persistence.” This persistent phenotype develops in res...

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Autores principales: Pokorzynski, Nick D., Thompson, Christopher C., Carabeo, Rey A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5599777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28951853
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2017.00394