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1Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Methods in Molecular Medicine
|February 22, 2011
Abstract:
To obtain iron, a necessary nutrient, meningococci and several other human and veterinary pathogens have iron-acquisition systems, which are expressed in vivo during infection. One target of iron-acquisition systems is transferrin (Tf), which is the major glycoprotein responsible for the transport of iron in the extracellular milieu of vertebrates. Tf-binding proteins A and B (TbpA and TbpB) function as the cell-surface Tf receptor in Neisseria meningitidis (1).

