TWiM #103: The battle for iron

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.

The TWiM team is amazed by the ocelloid, and an evolutionary battle for iron between mammalian transferrin and bacterial transferrin-binding protein.

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Links for this episode

• A unicellular camera-type eye structure (PLoS One)
• Escape from iron piracy (Science)
• Iron in infection and immunity (Cell Host Micr)
• Nutritional immunity (Nat Rev Micro)
• Evolutionary Path (Matthew Barber)
• Image credit: Janet Iwasa
• Sponsors for this episode: SciMedSolutions, ICAAC-ICC

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