Understanding Heme Transport
- 8 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 353 (23), 2508-2509
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmcibr053987
Abstract
A newly identified protein — heme carrier protein 1 — apparently mediates the uptake of cellular heme. Mutations impairing the activity of this protein might account, in part, for the broad spectrum of clinical severity observed in patients with genetic hemochromatosis.Keywords
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