Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

Amount

$474,132.00

Award Date

7/31/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The central hypothesis of this proposal is that cysteine is a significant cause of oxidative stress without oxygen, and that reactive sulfur species (RSS) mediate this stress. Because some of the most notorious pathogens have a particular enzyme to mainta