Metal economy in host-microbe interactions

• Main Author: Frederic Veyrier (auth)
• Other Authors: Mathieu Cellier (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: exporter; regulation; Virulence; transporter; metal; host; pathogen
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

From simple inorganic catalysts to vital biological cofactors, divalent transition metals are instrumental to electron transfers, catalysis and signaling. Their natural ability to bind, exchange and react with organic molecules including oxygen requires from living cells to regulate uptake with meta...