Bacillus Anthracis Overcomes an Amino Acid
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Running Title: Anthracis cleaves serum proteins 3 Austen Terwilliger, Michelle C. Swick, Kathryn J. Pflughoeft, Andrei 4 Pomerantsev, C. Rick Lyons, Theresa M. Koehler, and Anthony 5 Maresso 6 Molecular Virology and Microbiology Department; Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, 7 TX, USA 8 #Corresponding author: [email protected], Ph: 713-798-7369 9 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical School, The University of 10 Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA 11 *Present address: Kathryn J. Pflughoeft, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 12 University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA. 13 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Microbial Pathogenesis Section, 14 Bethesda, MD, USA 15 Infectious Disease Research Complex, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 16 USA 17 18 Abstract 19 Bacteria sustain an infection by acquiring nutrients from the host to support 20 replication. The host sequesters these nutrients as a growth-restricting strategy, a 21 concept termed nutritional immunity. Historically, the study of nutritional immunity has 22 JB Accepted Manuscript Posted Online 11 May 2015 J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.00073-15 Copyright © 2015, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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Bacillus anthracis Overcomes an Amino Acid Auxotrophy by Cleaving Host Serum Proteins.
UNLABELLED Bacteria sustain an infection by acquiring nutrients from the host to support replication. The host sequesters these nutrients as a growth-restricting strategy, a concept termed "nutritional immunity." Historically, the study of nutritional immunity has centered on iron uptake because many bacteria target hemoglobin, an abundant circulating protein, as an iron source. Left unresolved...
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تاریخ انتشار 2015