R. Martin Roop

Zinc Homeostasis in Brucella ovis Under Zinc Scarcity: Characterization of the ZnuABC Zinc Import System and of a Newly Identified Gene of the Zur Regulon

The zinc import system ZnuABC is essential for the virulence of smooth (bearing O-polysaccharide chains) zoonotic Brucella species but remains uncharacterized in the non-zoonotic rough (lacking O-chains) species Brucella ovis, the causative agent of a type of ovine brucellosis of...