Metal economy in host-microbe interactions

• Main Authors: Frederic Veyrier, Mathieu Cellier
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Book Industry Communication; exporter; host; metal; pathogen; Q1-390; RC109-216; Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects; regulation; Research & information: general; transporter; Virulence

From simple inorganic catalysts to vital biological cofactors, divalent transition metals are instrumental to electron transfers, catalysis and signaling. Their natural ability to bind, exchange and react with organic molecules including oxygen requires from living cells to regulate uptake with meta...