Iron Uptake and Homeostasis in Microorganisms

The role of iron sequestration systems in facilitating microbial infections has been a major driving force behind research into microbial iron transport processes. Here microbiologists, biochemists and their ilk overview iron transport processes with a range of micro-organisms, and suggest how microbial iron levels are controlled. The examples have been chosen to illustrate some of the processes and occur across many species and groups. Among the topics are siderophores from bacteria and from fungi, haem uptake and iron extraction by bacteria, mechanisms and regulation of iron homeostasis in the Rhizobia, iron uptake in Shigella and Escherichia coli, haem and iron metabolism in Bacteriodes, iron dependence and transport in Cyanobacteria, and iron uptake in Staphylococci. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)