| Literature DB >> 18489257 |
Martina U Muckenthaler1, Bruno Galy, Matthias W Hentze.
Abstract
The regulation and maintenance of systemic iron homeostasis is critical to human health. Iron overload and deficiency diseases belong to the most common nutrition-related pathologies across the globe. It is now well appreciated that the hormonal hepcidin/ferroportin system plays an important regulatory role for systemic iron metabolism. We review recent data that uncover the importance of the cellular iron-responsive element/iron-regulatory protein (IRE/IRP) regulatory network in systemic iron homeostasis. We also discuss how the IRE/IRP regulatory system communicates with the hepcidin/ferroportin system to connect the control networks for systemic and cellular iron balance.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18489257 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.28.061807.155521
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Annu Rev Nutr ISSN: 0199-9885 Impact factor: 11.848