Further experiments indicated that DCT1 is important in
iron transport in adult rats.
Evolutionary analysis shows how a mammalian
iron transport protein evolves to avoid capture by bacteria [Also see Report by Barber and Elde]
The
primate iron transport protein and a bacterial transferrin surface receptor are in an evolutionary battle for iron.
Since its beginning, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames, and not just the fires spewing forth from furnaces
smelting iron transported directly to the River Rouge foundry, where it was poured into molds to make engine blocks.
J.R. Burdo et al., «Mechanisms and regulation of transferring and
iron transport in a model blood - brain barrier system,» Neuroscience 121, no. 4 (2003): 883 - 90.
Ines Ehrnstorfer, a PhD student in the group of Professor Raimund Dutzler at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Zurich, and her colleagues, have determined the first structure of
an iron transport protein.
Structure of
the iron transport - protein.
«But in the long term,» said Ellermeier, «if
iron transport is critical one could imagine the development of drugs which would inhibit iron transport in C. diff.
Iron Transport: Lactoferrin has an extremely high affinity for iron.