Iron transfer from transferrin to ferritin mediated by pyrophosphate |
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Authors: | K Konopka J C Mareschal R R Crichton |
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Institution: | Unité de Biochimie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Place L. Pasteur, 1, B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. |
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Abstract: | There is no significant iron exchange from transferrin to ferritin in the absence of reducing and chelating agents. Pyrophosphate can release iron from transferrin and can be isolated as a ferric pyrophosphate complex by ion exchange chromatography. We have established that pyrophosphate alone can mediate iron exchange from transferrin to ferritin. Under these conditions, iron is incorporated directly into ferritin as Fe(III). |
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