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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

The bacterial cell membrane acts as a dynamic heme reservoir during group B

G H Hillebrand, H A Stephenson, E J Giacobe, A S Neel, S M Carlin, F D Kemp, T A Hooven

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

G H HillebrandUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3391-4306
H A StephensonUniversity of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
E J GiacobeUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-8506-011X
A S NeelUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5138-3628
S M CarlinUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7455-5127
F D KempUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Program in Microbiology and Immunology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8400-3089
T A HoovenUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1959-186X

Funding

Group B Streptococcus surface determinants of neonatal intestinal colonization and infectionR01AI182835 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Thomas A Hooven · 2024 to 2026
$1.6M
Signal transduction, metabolic shifts, and host interactions during group B Streptococcus infectionR01AI177991 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Thomas A Hooven · 2024 to 2026
$1.4M
High-Throughput Computing for Genomics and Bioinformatics ResearchS10OD028483 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LEE, ADRIAN V · 2021 to 2021
$574k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI177991NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI182835NIH HHS S10 OD028483
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During bloodstream infection, most bacterial pathogens maintain homeostatic levels of heme, which serves as an essential biochemical cofactor and iron source, but becomes toxic at high intracellular concentrations. Well-characterized, surface exposed heme binding and acquisition systems exist in several blood-borne bacterial species. However, some gram-positive bacteria that invade the bloodstream do not encode surface displayed heme acquisition systems, despite showing clear evidence of heme utilization in blood. An example is

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bacteremiaGroup B Streptococcushemehemolysistwo-component systems

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PMID42182372
PMCPMC13192879

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