IRON IN INTRACELLULAR INFECTION: TO PROVIDE OR TO DEPRIVE?

Iron in intracellular infection: to provide or to deprive?

Due to their chemical versatility, transition metals were incorporated as cofactors for several basic metabolic pathways in living organisms.This same characteristic makes them potentially harmful, since they can be engaged in deleterious reactions like Fenton chemistry.As such, organisms have evolved highly specialized mechanisms to supply their o

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Bacteria associated with Copestylum (Diptera, Syrphidae) larvae and their cactus host Isolatocereus dumortieri.

We Primers describe the gut bacterial diversity inhabiting two saprophagous syrphids and their breeding substrate (decayed tissues of the columnar cactus Isolatocereus dumortieri).We analyzed the gut microbiota of Copestylum latum (scooping larvae that feed on decayed cactus tissues) and Copestylum limbipenne (whose larvae can also feed on semiliqu

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