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This is not your mother's repressor: the complex role of fur in pathogenesis.

Infection and immunity ·Vol. 77 ·No. 7 ·2009-07-00 ·Pages 2590-601

Carpenter BM, Whitmire JM, Merrell DS

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MeSH Terms
Animals Bacterial Physiological Phenomena Bacterial Proteins/physiology Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial Humans Repressor Proteins/physiology
Chemicals
Bacterial Proteins Repressor Proteins ferric uptake regulating proteins, bacterial
Authors & Affiliations
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Carpenter Beth M
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Heath Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Whitmire Jeannette M
Merrell D Scott
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Article Info
Journal
Infection and immunity
Abbr.
Infect Immun
ISSN
1098-5522
DOI
10.1128/IAI.00116-09
Published
2009-07-00
Epub
2009-00-13
Pages
2590-601
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
0246127
PMCID
PMC2708581
Subset
IM
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NIAID NIH HHS · R01 AI065529 · United States
NIAID NIH HHS · R01 AI065529-05 · United States
NIAID NIH HHS · R56 AI065529 · United States
NIAID NIH HHS · AI065529 · United States
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