Repozytorium

Siderophores : microbial tools for iron uptake and resistance to other metals.

Autorzy

Karolina Zdyb

Małgorzata Ostrowska

Agnieszka Szebesczyk

Elżbieta Gumienna-Kontecka

Rok wydania

2017

Wydawca

Taylor & Francis Group

Miejsce wydania

Boca Raton

Strony

247-266

Tytuł książki

Handbook of metal-microbe interactions and bioremediation.

ISBN

9781498762427

Kolekcja

Naukowa

Język

Angielski

Typ publikacji

Rozdział książki

Streszczenie

Metal ions can have a twofold effect on all living organisms, both essential, allowing to perform vital functions, and toxic. To receive the indispensable and to deal with toxic metals, microorganisms have developed mechanisms to control the level of the absorption, storage, and elimination of metal ions. One of the known systems is siderophore-mediated uptake, mainly applied to the iron assimilation, but it has been proven that microbial pathogens utilize structurally diverse siderophores to scavenge and control other metals. This ability not only allows bacteria and fungi to gain the necessary nutrients like iron but also provides protection against the toxic metal ions. Here, the interactions of bacterial and fungal siderophores with essential and heavy metal ions and actinides are reported.

Adres publiczny

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315153353/chapters/10.1201/9781315153353-25