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An intercellular heme-trafficking protein delivers maternal heme to the embryo during development in C. elegans.
Cell - 27 May 2011
Chen Caiyong, Samuel Tamika K, Sinclair Jason, Dailey Harry A, Hamza Iqbal
Abstract excerpt
Extracellular free heme can intercalate into membranes and promote damage to cellular macromolecules. Thus it is likely that specific intercellular pathways exist for the directed transport, trafficking, and delivery of heme to cellular destinations, although none have been found to date. Here we...
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