Key pathological mechanism found in plague bacterium
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A more than 50-year-old question has now been answered. Chemists and microbiologists at the Biological Chemistry Center at Umeå University in Sweden are now able to describe in detail the role of calcium in the ability of the plague bacterium Yersinias to cause disease.