This Week in Microbiology

TWiM #103: The battle for iron


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Hosts: Vincent RacanielloMichael SchmidtElio Schaechter and Michele Swanson

The TWiM team is amazed by the ocelloid, and an evolutionary battle for iron between mammalian transferrin and bacterial transferrin-binding protein.

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Links for this episode
  • A unicellular camera-type eye structure (PLoS One)
  • Escape from iron piracy (Science)
  • Iron in infection and immunity (Cell Host Micr)
  • Nutritional immunity (Nat Rev Micro)
  • Evolutionary Path (Matthew Barber)
  • Image credit: Janet Iwasa
  • Sponsors for this episode: SciMedSolutionsICAAC-ICC
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