The Metallophore Staphylopine Enables Staphylococcus aureus To Compete with the Host for Zinc and Overcome Nutritional Immunity

Kyle P Grim; Brian San Francisco; Jana N Radin; Erin B Brazel; Jessica L Kelliher; Paola K Parraga Solorzano; Philip C Kim; Christopher A McDevitt; Thomas E Kehl-Fie

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The Metallophore Staphylopine Enables Staphylococcus aureus To Compete with the Host for Zinc and Overcome Nutritional Immunity

Kyle P Grim, Brian San Francisco, Jana N Radin, Erin B Brazel, Jessica L Kelliher, Paola K Parraga Solorzano, Philip C Kim, Christopher A McDevitt, Thomas E Kehl-Fie

mBio | AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01281-17

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This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (K22 AI104805 and R01 AI118880) and a March of Dimes Basil O'Connor award to T.E.K.-F. and by National Health and Medical Research Council (project grants 1080784 and 1122582) and Australian Research Council (Discovery Projects DP150104515 and DP170102102) grants to C.A.M. B.S.F. was funded by an Institute for Genomic Biology Postdoctoral Fellowship.