New Paper on Yersiniabactin & Nutritional Immunity

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Interested in how bacteria evade nutritional immunity? Check out Sarah’s paper in PNAS!

Yersinia pestis overcomes iron limitation via the production of the secreted siderophore yersiniabactin. In collaboration with collaborators from the Vadyvaloo, Kehl-Fie, Garneau-Tsodikova, and Perry Labs, Sarah identified an iron-independent role for yersiniabactin in evading zinc-mediated nutritional immunity during mammalian infection and in Y. pestis colonization of the flea–insect vector.

Celebrating with a new coffee mug — a favorite lab tradition!