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Deletion of BMP6 worsens the phenotype of HJV-deficient mice and attenuates hepcidin levels reached after LPS challenge.
Blood - 23 Nov 2017
Latour Chloé, Besson-Fournier Céline, Gourbeyre Ophélie, Meynard Delphine, Roth Marie-Paule, Coppin Hélène
Abstract excerpt
Lack of either bone morphogenetic protein 6 (BMP6) or the BMP coreceptor hemojuvelin (HJV) in mice leads to a similar phenotype with hepcidin insufficiency, hepatic iron loading, and extrahepatic iron accumulation in males. This is consistent with the current views that HJV is a coreceptor for BMP6 in hepatocytes. To determine whether BMP6 and HJV may also signal to hepcidin independently of each other, we...
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