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Fungal physiology: Robbing the bank of haem iron

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Structural determination of the secreted haem-binding protein from Candida albicans reveals a novel fold and haem coordination environment that facilitates the shuttling of the haem cofactor across the cell wall to the cell surface.

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Figure 1: Diversity in haemophores, secreted haem-binding proteins.

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  1. Caroline C. Philpott and Olga Protchenko are at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.,

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Philpott, C., Protchenko, O. Fungal physiology: Robbing the bank of haem iron. Nat Microbiol 1, 16179 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.179

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