Iron at the center of ferritin, metal/oxygen homeostasis and novel dietary strategies

Bioiron _ central to respiration, photosynthesis and DNA synthesis and complicated by radical chemistry with oxygen _ depends on ferritin, the super family of protein nanocages (maxi-ferritins in humans, animals, plants and bacteria, and mini-ferritins, also called DPS proteins, in bacteria) for iro...

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Main Authors: X LIU, K HINTZE, B LONNERDAL, EC THEIL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-01-01
Series:Biological Research
Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602006000100018