Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Structure of the bacterial plant-ferredoxin receptor FusA

  • Rhys Grinter,
  • Inokentijs Josts,
  • Khedidja Mosbahi,
  • Aleksander W. Roszak,
  • Richard J. Cogdell,
  • Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin,
  • Joel J. Milner,
  • Sharon M. Kelly,
  • Olwyn Byron,
  • Brian O. Smith,
  • Daniel Walker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13308
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Many bacteria use TonB-dependent outer membrane receptors to scavenge iron from their host during infection. Here, the authors report on the structure and function of FusA, which is a bacterial receptor that is used to obtain iron from plants.