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Modulation of intramacrophage iron metabolism during microbial cell invasion
1Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA.
Microbes and Infection
|March 16, 2000
Abstract:
The mechanisms whereby vertebrate hosts withhold iron from microbial invaders, as well as the methods used in attempts by invaders to capture the growth-essential metal, differ between host extracellular and intracellular environments. This review focuses on procedures employed by host cells and by invaders, respectively, that alter intramacrophage iron metabolism.