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Mechanisms of HFE-induced regulation of iron homeostasis: Insights from the W81A HFE mutation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Aug 2003
Zhang An-Sheng, Davies Paige S, Carlson Hanqian L, Enns Caroline A
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms by which the hereditary hemochromatosis protein, HFE, decreases transferrin-mediated iron uptake were examined. Coimmunoprecipitation studies using solubilized cell extracts demonstrated that transferrin (Tf) competed with HFE for binding to the transferrin receptor (TfR) similar to previous in vitro studies using soluble truncated forms of HFE and the TfR. At concentrations of Tf approaching those...
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