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- Title
Innate immunity: The fight for iron.
- Authors
Bird, Lucy
- Abstract
The article focuses on the relevance of iron in bacterial survival and growth in which much of which is acquired from the host into the pathogen. It could be noted that the innate immune system of the host can keep bacteria from incurring iron through lipocalin 2 production. Its role in mice's bacterial infection remain healthy when challenged with Escherichia coli through the co-injection of ferrichrome. This immunity allows bacteria to acquire iron by an enterochelin-independent manner.
- Subjects
NATURAL immunity; IRON; ESCHERICHIA coli; BACTERIAL diseases; MICE
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004, Vol 2, Issue 12, p926
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro1061