Do iron oxide nanoparticles have significant antibacterial properties?

SV Gudkov, DE Burmistrov, DA Serov, MB Rebezov… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of metal oxide nanoparticles is one of the promising ways for overcoming antibiotic
resistance in bacteria. Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) have found wide applications in …

Host-associated probiotics: a key factor in sustainable aquaculture

H Van Doan, SH Hoseinifar, E Ringø… - Reviews in fisheries …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The aquaculture industry has dramatically developed during the last two decades. However,
this development has, in some cases, resulted in environmental degradation, emergence of …

Urinary tract infections: epidemiology, mechanisms of infection and treatment options

AL Flores-Mireles, JN Walker, M Caparon… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a severe public health problem and are caused by a range
of pathogens, but most commonly by Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus …

[HTML][HTML] FeGenie: a comprehensive tool for the identification of iron genes and iron gene neighborhoods in genome and metagenome assemblies

AI Garber, KH Nealson, A Okamoto… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Iron is a micronutrient for nearly all life on Earth. It can be used as an electron donor and
electron acceptor by iron-oxidizing and iron-reducing microorganisms and is used in a …

The role of iron in host–microbiota crosstalk and its effects on systemic glucose metabolism

J Mayneris-Perxachs, JM Moreno-Navarrete… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Iron is critical for the appearance and maintenance of life on Earth. Almost all organisms
compete or cooperate for iron acquisition, demonstrating the importance of this essential …

Urinary tract infection: Pathogenicity, antibiotic resistance and development of effective vaccines against Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

MRA Karam, M Habibi, S Bouzari - Molecular immunology, 2019 - Elsevier
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are recognized as one of the most common infectious
diseases in the world that can be divided to different types. Uropathogenic Escherichia coli …

Building a genome-based understanding of bacterial pH preferences

J Ramoneda, E Stallard-Olivera, M Hoffert… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The environmental preferences of many microbes remain undetermined. This is the case for
bacterial pH preferences, which can be difficult to predict a priori despite the importance of …

[HTML][HTML] Iron mediated toxicity and programmed cell death: A review and a re-examination of existing paradigms

R Eid, NTT Arab, MT Greenwood - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2017 - Elsevier
Iron is an essential micronutrient that is problematic for biological systems since it is toxic as
it generates free radicals by interconverting between ferrous (Fe 2+) and ferric (Fe 3+) forms …

Synthetic Fe/Cu complexes: toward understanding heme-copper oxidase structure and function

SM Adam, GB Wijeratne, PJ Rogler, DE Diaz… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial
respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to …

Iron acquisition systems of gram-negative bacterial pathogens define TonB-dependent pathways to novel antibiotics

PE Klebba, SMC Newton, DA Six, A Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Iron is an indispensable metabolic cofactor in both pro-and eukaryotes, which engenders a
natural competition for the metal between bacterial pathogens and their human or animal …