About the Authors
- Won Hee Jung
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Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Anita Sham
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Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Tianshun Lian
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¤ Current address: Division of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Arvinder Singh
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- Daniel J Kosman
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- James W Kronstad
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kronstad@interchange.ubc.ca
Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
W. Jung and J. Kronstad conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed data, and wrote the paper. W. Jung, A. Sham, and T. Lian performed the experiments with the exception that A. Singh and D. Kosman performed the iron uptake experiments with transferrin and analysed data.