How Plant-Rotting Bacteria Steal Iron to Survive (IMAGE)

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How Plant-Rotting Bacteria Steal Iron to Survive

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Mechanism for the import of the plant protein ferredoxin (red) across the bacterial outer membrane and into the periplasm of Pectobacterium.

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Trevor Lithgow, <a target="_blank"href="http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006026">http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006026</a>

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