Chemistry Division, Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre Varese, Italy;Institute of Occupational Health, University of Milan Italy
Abstract:
The study of possible relationships between iron and vanadium metabolism (E. Sabbioni and E. Marafante, Proc. XIth Int. Conf. Biochem., 13-5-R122, Toronto, Canada) was extended to the vanadium in the biochemical mechanisms which involve the exchange of iron between transferrin and ferritin. The transfer of vanadium between transferrin and ferritin was investigated using 48V radiotracer and gel filtration technique. 48V labelled human transferrin and horse spleen ferritin, 48V plasma from rats injected with 48VO2+, unlabelled rat liver cytosol, and plasma were used as sources of the two proteins for their incubation under different conditions. The results show that the equilibrium:
