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Iron thievery

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Bacteria have many ways of stealing iron from the organisms they infect. But this thievery is not one-sided, and a newly discovered device in the mammalian tool kit does a good job of keeping bacteria in check.

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Figure 1: Snatching bacterial iron.

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    Jonathan Barasch & Kiyoshi Mori

  2. Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York City, 10032, New York, USA

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