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The ins and outs of mitochondrial iron-loading: the metabolic defect in Friedreich's ataxia.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Apr 2010
Richardson Des R, Huang Michael L-H, Whitnall Megan, Becker Erika M, Ponka Prem, Suryo Rahmanto Yohan
Abstract excerpt
Friedreich's ataxia is a cardio- and neurodegenerative disease due to decreased expression of the mitochondrial protein, frataxin. This defect results in mitochondrial iron-overload, and in this review, we discuss the mechanisms that lead to this iron accumulation. Using a conditional knockout mouse model where frataxin is deleted in the heart, it has been shown that this mutation leads to transferrin receptor-1...
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