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07 July 2026
Metal Liker Unforgiven
We need trace metals for healthy cell function but then so do all other organisms, handily we have a means of safeguarding the supply of certain metals which doubles as an anti-pathogen strategy. A protein in the mammalian gut lining cells called natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 2 (also known as SLC11A2) starves pathogenic microrganisms of iron and manganese – shown here using Salmonella enterica (in red) as a model in cow gut, with metals tracked using fluorescent sensors
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Emilia S. Norberg and colleagues
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), June 2026
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