siderophores

siderophores
Natural iron-binding compounds that chelate ferric ions (which form insoluble colloidal hydroxides at neutral pH and are then inaccessible) and are then taken up together with the metal ion. See sideramines.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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