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Tuberculosis / iron acquisition
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| ironjustice@aol.com 2006-06-09, 4:26 pm |
| Control of iron metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Rodriguez GM
Trends Microbiol. 2006 Jun 4;
Tuberculosis continues to kill millions of people around the world. New
tools to prevent and treat this disease are urgently needed. Similar to
most microorganisms, Mycobacterium tuberculosis - the causative agent
of tuberculosis - requires iron for essential metabolic pathways.
Because iron is not freely available in the host, pathogens must
actively compete for this metal to establish an infection but they must
also carefully control iron acquisition as excess free iron can be
extremely toxic. Recent studies have demonstrated that failure to
assemble the iron acquisition machinery or to repress iron uptake has
deleterious effects for M. tuberculosis. Here, we review how M.
tuberculosis obtains iron in a regulated manner and discuss how these
processes could potentially be disrupted to interfere with the survival
and replication of this bacterium in the host.
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| babawali@world.com 2006-06-09, 4:26 pm |
| "Because iron is not freely available in the host, pathogens must actively
compete for this metal to establish an infection but they must also
carefully control iron acquisition as excess free iron can be extremely
toxic. "
Yes, free iron not common in the body and too much free iron is toxic to
the tb bacteria.
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| ironjustice@aol.com 2006-06-10, 2:26 am |
| babawali@world.com wrote:
> "Because iron is not freely available in the host, pathogens must actively
> compete for this metal to establish an infection but they must also
> carefully control iron acquisition as excess free iron can be extremely
> toxic. "
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> Yes, free iron not common in the body and too much free iron is toxic to
> th
Soooo .. one can .. 'do the study in your head' .. and say .. "it seems
we probably ARE .. killing .. millions of kids by the routine
supplementation of iron in their foods .. just like we have been doing
in those kids with malaria. We've been killing them by the millions ..
too .. " ..
Or .. are you .. stupid ..
Take .. your .. pick ..
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e tb bacteria.
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| babawali@world.com 2006-06-10, 8:27 am |
| "in those kids with malaria. We've been killing them by the millions .."
Why would you be infecting children?
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| ironjustice@aol.com 2006-06-10, 4:27 pm |
| babawali@world.com wrote:
> "in those kids with malaria. We've been killing them by the millions .."
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> Why would you be infecting children?
You have something to add .. ?
Do ya .. ?
"I .. am .. stupid .."
I suggest the above would have been more .. apropos ..
Heh .. heh ..
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