Large scale expression and purification of secreted mouse hephaestin.

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Hephaestin is a large membrane-anchored multicopper ferroxidase involved in mammalian iron metabolism. Newly absorbed dietary iron is exported across the enterocyte basolateral membrane by the ferrous iron transporter ferroportin, but hephaestin increases the efficiency of this process by oxidizing the transported iron to its ferric form and promoting its release from ferroportin. Deletion or mutation of the...

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