Xiu Tian

3 weeks ago | advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mengying Wang |Dandan Zhang |Xiu Tian |Jiangyang Tong

Graphical Abstract Riemerella anatipestifer The image depicts the Monkey King from the Chinese mythological story Journey to the West, who transforms into many incarnations to help him pick fruit from trees for his own use. Similarly, in the article number 2412202 Songying Ouyang, Mafeng Liu, Anchun Cheng, and co-workers show that Riemerella anatipestifer secretes heamophore as a component of uter membrane vesicles to capture haem from host haemoglobin.

2 months ago | advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mengying Wang |Dandan Zhang |Xiu Tian |Jiangyang Tong

1 Introduction Iron is an essential nutrient for the survival, proliferation, and virulence of most bacteria because of its role in respiration, DNA synthesis, and oxidoreduction reactions.[1] In higher organisms, iron is sequestered in iron-carrier proteins, transferrin and lactoferrin and in haem as haemoproteins, such as hemoglobin and haemopexin.[2] In vertebrates, the haem in hemoglobin is the richest iron reservoir, and ≈70% of iron is stored in this protein.[3] To fulfill their iron...