Nerdy Science Blog

A Syracuse University research team discovered the gene that helps bacteria to suck iron from human host or environment efficiently to survive.  The discovery by the research team led by Robert Doyle, assistant professor of chemistry in The College of Arts and Sciences, was from the study of Streptomyces coelicolor.  Streptomyces coelicolor is closely related to the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.  The discovery of the gene that enables iron uptake from the environment could lead researchers in the battle of tuberculosis.  The research paper will be published in August issue (volume 190, issue 16) of the Journal of Bacteriology.

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