NEW EMBO MEMBER'S REVIEW: Ferritins, iron uptake and storage from the bacterioferritin viewpoint
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Alterations in tissue ferritins in iron storage disorders.
Purified tissue ferritins isolated from Bantu subjects with gross haemosiderosis, from a patient with idiopathic haemochromatosis (HC) treated by phlebotomy, and from rats with experimental iron overload were studied in order to determine the significance of the abnormality previously demonstrated in tissue isoferritins in patients with IHC. The isoferrin profile of the tissues from the Bantu s...
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The structure of recombinant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterioferritin B (Pa BfrB) has been determined from crystals grown from protein devoid of core mineral iron (as-isolated) and from protein mineralized with approximately 600 iron atoms (mineralized). Structures were also obtained from crystals grown from mineralized BfrB after they had been soaked in an FeSO(4) solution (Fe soak) and in sepa...
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عنوان ژورنال: The EMBO Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1460-2075
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg215