Iron-52

Hello I'm interested in microorganisms that are capable of reducing magnetite (Fe3O4) or other iron oxide. I found this rather old article : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11539843 This article centers around the reduction of magnetite by Shewanella, when coupled to ...

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... several substances that can indeed be harmful in higher concentrations that is not present in poultry or fish. Some studies indicate that heme iron, for example, could be one of these (even though iron is essential for humans, high intake of heme iron from diet for prolonged periods can be ...

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Human blood is always red, however creatures like the Horseshoe crab have blue blood, this is because they do not use hemoglobin to attract oxygen (iron based) but instead use hemocyanin (copper based) it must be a more efficent way of delivering oxygen to the cells as they have survived all the ...

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... for the second question depends on the hemolysin in question, but most are expressed only in specific conditions. For example, the presence of iron inactivates some types of hemolysin expression in bacteria that use it to obtain iron from red blood cells. Thus, on standard blood agar these ...

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... for the second question depends on the hemolysin in question, but most are expressed only in specific conditions. For example, the presence of iron inactivates some types of hemolysin expression in bacteria that use it to obtain iron from red blood cells. Thus, on standard blood agar these ...

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