The iron requirement for maximal cell yields of a fluorescent pseudomonad increases as the temperature of incubation is increased. On a succinate salts medium, maximal cell yields are attained at iron concentrations of 0.10 mug/ml of added iron at 20 C and at 3.0 mug/ml of added iron at 28 C. This bacterium does not grow in the basal medium at 31 C even in the presence of 0.01 to 10 mug/ml of a...

production of high quality with high shelf life of apple fruits, is of great importance. present study investigates the effects of ammonium nitrate and iron on quality and antioxidant properties of apple fruit cultivar gala in a randomized complete block design. foliar application of iron chelate in three levels (0, 5 and 10 mg/l) and soil nutrition of ammonium nitrate in three levels as strip ...

Many animal-pathogenic bacteria can use heme compounds as iron sources. Like these microorganisms, rhizobium strains interact with host organisms where heme compounds are available. Results presented in this paper indicate that the use of hemoglobin as an iron source is not restricted to animal-pathogenic microorganisms. We also demonstrate that heme, hemoglobin, and leghemoglobin can act as ir...

Iron absorption from an iron-fortified food can be considered adequate if the target population is able to maintain or improve iron status while consuming the fortified food as part of a normal diet. This is not always easy to achieve. In fact, iron is the most difficult mineral to add to foods and it is additionally difficult to ensure adequate absorption. This is because the most soluble and ...

The urinary tract is one of the most common sites of infection in humans, and uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the main causative agent of urinary tract infections. Bacteria colonizing the urinary tract face extremely low iron availability. To counteract this, UPEC expresses a wide variety of iron acquisition systems. To exploit iron acquisition in UPEC as a global target for small-mole...

Six Gardnerella vaginalis strains were examined for the ability to utilize various iron-containing compounds as iron sources. In a plate bioassay, all six strains acquired iron from ferrous chloride, ferric chloride, ferrous sulfate, ferric ammonium citrate, ferrous ammonium sulfate, bovine and equine hemin, bovine catalase, and equine, bovine, rabbit, and human hemoglobin. All six strains also...

The protective effects of selected members from a series of caffeic acid esters and flavonoids were tested in various toxicity paradigms using U937 cells, previously shown to be sensitive to either iron chelators or bona fide radical scavengers or to both classes of compounds. It was found that all the protective polyphenols were active at very low concentrations and that their effects were obs...

Iron-reducing bacteria can transfer electrons to ferric iron oxides which are barely soluble at neutral pH, and electron-shuttling compounds or chelators are discussed to be involved in this process. Experiments using semipermeable membranes for separation of ferric iron-reducing bacteria from ferric iron oxides do not provide conclusive results in this respect. Here, we used ferrihydrite embed...