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after passage through the cell membrane [ 112 ]. Iron would then be released from
bacterioferritin on demand from the cell probably by an internal ferric-reductase.
It will then be of doubtless interest to the reader to compare this model given
in Fig. 2.11 to the ones then described in detail in the other chapters of this mono-
graph. When all is known and understood, these early beginnings of iron acqui-
sition may, hopefully, still prove to have been modeled along the right lines but
there is still much to be elucidated in this fascinating aspect of mycobacterial
metabolism.
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